The evil eye. An account of this ancient and wide spread superstition

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394 THE EVIL EYE chap.
The creator of heaven and earth, deliver me, thy servant,
from every ill by the evil, wicked, and sorcerer choking
and paroxysm daughter of Tekla Haimanoot.
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Continuation : there being not sufficient space below the
last line on the face.
34. Isma alvo negar Zeyesano le Egziawehair.
Nothing is impossible with God
The figures and letters after the above form a talisman,
signifying
! him
in words : " Bind him !
Bind
him !
Bind
Coming back from Abyssinia to England, we
subjoin to the above the following genuine recipes.
They are taken from a book which belonged to the
"Conjurer" referred to in note 80, Chap. II. p. 55 :
A Receipt for III IVishing
Take a handful of white salt in your right hand and strewe it
over the Backs of all your cattle : begin at the head of the near
side and go to the Tail, and from the Tail to the head up the off
side, and as you let it out of your hand say these words : " As
Thy servant Elisha healed the waters of Jericho by casting salt
therein, so I hope to heal this my Beast : in the Name of God
the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Amen."
If any Cattle is bad, do tints
Cut a bit of hair from between the Ears, a bit from behind
each Shoulder, and a bit from the Stump of the Tail, a little Blood,
a Teaspoonful of Gunpowder, and put the whole into a small
Bladder, and tie the top of it ; then get some Green Ashen wood,
and make a fire, and set it on the brand irons, and take the
Bladder into your right hand, and say those words : " I confine
all Evil, and all Enemies of mine and my cattle into the fire for
ever, never to hurt me or mine any more for ever: in the Name of
God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Amen."
Then drop it into the Fire, and let it burn out. Read the first
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