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The Highland Monthly.
said '
up,' another one said ' stay,' and the third one said,
'
I will stop the blood of man or woman." Me to say it,
and Christ to do it, in the name of the Father, and the Son,
and the Holy Ghost."
Another charm to staunch blood among the Manx was
in Latin, and was as follows :
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A Charm to Stop Bleeding.
Sanguis mane in te,
Sicut Christus in se ;
Sanguis mane in tua vena,
Sicut Christus in sua pcena ;
Sanguis mane fixus,
Sicut erat Christus,
Quando fuit crucifixus.
Our toothache Toisgeal was on no account to be seen
by the sufferer. Similarly, the above was not to be trans-
lated, as translation deprived it of its efficacy.
BIIE OF A MAD DOG.
The bite of a mad dog was naturally much dreaded.
Indeed the bite of any dog was. The mad dog was invariably
destroyed. In the case of another dog, it sometimes
sufficed if water was put on the animal's teeth, and the
wound washed with this water, or loc-shlamte (Health-
Restorer) as it was called. Our Irish cousins dealt with
the case of the mad dog in their ancient laws. In the
Book of Aicill we are told "There is no benefit in proclaiming
it (the mad dog cu con/aid) unless it be killed ; nor
though it be killed unless it be burned ; nor though it be
burned unless its ashes have been cast into a stream."
The matter was also dealt with in the Irish charms.
Here is a specimen used in West Connaught :
Translated
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Coisgim cu air mire,
Cuirim nimh air neimb-bhrigh,
'Se dubhairt Patraic uair no tri,
In nomine Patris, et filii, &c.
I check a mad dog,
I make the poison of no effect,
Saith St Patrick twice or thrice,
In nomine, &c.
[to be continued.)
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