Another.—Take a bean-shell, and rub the wart with it; then bring the bean-shell under an ash-tree, and repeat:
As this bean-shell rots away,
So my wart shall soon decay!
This also must be done secretly.
The Hiccup.
Hickup, hickup, go away,
Come again another day:
Hickup, hickup, when I bake,
I'll give to you a butter-cake.
The Ague.—Said on St. Agnes's eve, sometimes up the chimney, by the oldest female in the family:
Tremble and go!
First day shiver and burn:
Tremble and quake!
Second day shiver and learn:
Tremble and die!
Third day never return.