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

LEECH BOOK. I. 15
shall write vipoii the eucharistic paton the holy and Contunts.
the great name of God, and wasli it witli lioly water in
to the drink, and sing a holy prayer over it and the
Credo and the Paternoster. Ten leechdoms.
Ixiii. Leechdoms for a fiendsick man {or demoniac),
drinks for that, and how a man shall sing masses and
prayers and psalms over the drink, and drink out of
church bells, and for a lunatic man, and for the wood
heart or frenzy, and for them all ; six receipts.
Ixiv. Leechdoms against every pagan charm and for
a man with elvish tricks ;
that is to say, an enchantment
for a sort of fever, and powder and drinks and
salve, and if the disease be on neat cattle ; and if the
disease harm a man, or if a mare ride him and hurt
him.
In aU seven crafts.
Ixv. Leechdoms again for typhus, and the names of
the four gospellers and writings and prayers ; and
in
silence shall one write some writing. Five receipts.
ixvi. Leechdoms for- the idiot and the silly.
Ixvii. Leechdoms and drinks for meat taken, and if
ale be spoilt or milken food. Three receipts.
Ixviii. Leechdoms in case a hunting spider^ bite a
man, that is, the stronger sort, and if another by name
gangweaver,^ bite Jdm. Six capital receipts.
Ixix. Leechdoms for a rent of a mad dog and for
wound of hound. Seven leechdoms,
Ixx. Leechdoms if a man be too lustful or too unlustful.
Ixxi. Leechdoms for sore of the dorsal muscles, and
if the heel
sinew be broken.
Ixxii. Leechdoms declaring at what time blood is to
be foregone, and at what to be let ; and how the air
is full of venom at Lammas'^ time, and of drinks and
evacuations on that month, and that worts on that
month are to be worked.
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Now Salticus scenicus. Aranea |
- Aranea viatica.
venatoria is American. But here ^ August 1.
the tarantula was meaut.