Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England. Being a ...

l.EEUll J.OOK. III. OlS
liv.
Work Ji salve against nocturnal goblin visitors ;
.
boil
in butter lupins, hedgeriie, bishopwort, led may the,
cropleek, salt; smear the rami therev/ith, it will soon
be well with him.
Book III.
Ch. liv.
Iv.
If a mans head-pan, or skull, be seemingly ironbound
lay the man with face upward, drive two
stakes into the groimcl at the armpits, then lay a plank
across over his feet, then strike on it thrice with a
sledge beetle, the skull will come right soon.
Ivi.
If a mans meat will not digest, boil in ale the
netherward part of clote, and marche, and leaves of
saxifrage, give Idm that to drink.
Ivii,
Against a womans chatter ; taste at night fasting
a root of radish, that day the chatter cannot harm
thee.
Iviii.
Against temptation of the fiend, a wort hight red
niolin, red stalk, it waxeth by running water : if thou
hast it on thee, and imder thy head bolster, and over
thy house doors, the devil may not scathe thee, within
nor without.
lix.
For a " dry " wen ; if it be on a man's knee, or on
another limb, work a paste of sour rye groats or dough,
add the Avliite of an egg and brook cresses, lay on the
limb till the paste gets hot, remove it then and lay
another on.