Charms for Quinsy.
Apply to the throat hair cut at midnight from the black shoulder stripe of the colt of an ass.
Charming the Wild Wart.
Take a branch of elder tree, strip off the bark, split off a piece, hold this skewer near the wart, and rub the wart three or nine times with the skewer, muttering the while an incantation of your own composing, then pierce the wart
with a thorn. Bury the skewer transfixed with the thorn in a dunghill. The wart will rot away just as the buried things decay.
Charm for Rheumatism.
Carry a potato in your pocket, and when one is finished, supply its place with another.
Charm for removing the Ringworm.
1. Spit on the ground the first thing in the morning, mix the spittle with the mould, and then anoint the ringworm with this mixture.
2. Hold an axe over the fire until it perspires, and then anoint the ringworm with the sweat.