The leaves made into salve, placed on a wound, where the flesh is dead, will cure the wound.
A spoon made out of its wood will make whatever you eat therewith nutritious.
Place it under the door post, and no snake nor adder can ever enter thy house.
The leaves placed in beer or wine will keep these liquids from becoming sour, and give them such a flavour that you will dispose of them quickly.
Place a branch of rosemary on the barrel, and it will keep thee from fever, even though thou drink of it for a whole day.
Such were some of the wonderful virtues of this plant, as given in the Brython, vol. iii., p. 339.
Charm for Clefyd y Galon, or Heart Disease.
The Rev. J. Felix, vicar of Cilcen, near Mold, when a young man lodged in Eglwysfach, near Glandovey. His landlady, noticing that he looked pale and thin, suggested that he was suffering from Clefyd y galon, which may be translated as above, or love sickness, a complaint common enough among young people, and she suggested that he should call in David Jenkins, a respectable farmer and a local preacher with the Wesleyans, to cure him. Jenkins came, and asked the supposed sufferer whether he believed in charms, and was answered in the negative. However, he proceeded with his patient as if he had answered in the affirmative. Mr Felix was told to take his coat off, he did so, and then he was bidden to tuck up his shirt above his elbow. Mr. Jenkins then took a yarn thread and placing one end on the elbow measured to the tip of Felix’s middle finger, then he told his patient to take hold of the yarn at one end, the other end resting the while on the elbow, and he was to take fast hold of it, and stretch it. This he did, and
the yarn lengthened, and this was a sign that he was actually sick of heart disease. Then the charmer tied this yarn around the patient’s left arm above the elbow, and there it was left, and on the next visit measured again, and he was pronounced cured.
The above information I received from Mr. Felix, who is still alive and well.