To Stop a Fire that is Burning a House.
Make three crosses on the mantel-piece with a live coal, and say:—“In te Domine speravi, non confundar in æternum.”
To Cause a Person to Love You.
Take four-leaved clover and place it on a consecrated stone; then say a Mass over it, put it into a nosegay, and make the person smell it, saying at the same time “Gabriel illa sunt.”
Another Means.
On St. John’s Eve gather clecampane (alliène de campana), dry it in an oven, reduce it to powder with ambergris, and wear it next your heart for nine days. Then endeavour to get the person whose love you wish to obtain, to swallow a portion of it, and the effect is sure to follow.
To Prevent a Sportsman from Killing any Game.
Say:—“Si ergo me quæritis, sinite hos abire.”
To Cure a Horse that has the Vives or the Gripes.[202]
Say:—“Our help is in the name of the Lord, who made the Heavens and the Earth. In the name of God, Amen! St. Nicodemus, who tookest down our Lord Jesus Christ from the cross, deign by the permission of God to cure this horse (name the colour), belonging to (name the owner), of the vives or gripes (as the case may be).”