SUNDRY CHARMS.
The vicar of a large parish church informs me that a woman came to him some time since for water from the font after a christening; she required it to undo some spell. The vicar states, that all the fonts in the country were formerly locked, to prevent people from stealing the “holy water,” as they called it.
CURE FOR COLIC IN TOWEDNACK.
To stand on one’s head for a quarter of an hour.
FOR A SCALD OR BURN.
“There came three angels out of the East,
One brought fire and two brought frost;
Out fire and in frost,
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
Amen!”