Northern mythology

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172 NORTH GERMAN CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS.
awer aliens woUen se damit ver- but they would take away all
teen.
with them.
I. N. G. u. s. w. In the name, etc.
For an excrescence. Lay the finger on it but without
looking at it, and say
Was ich seh, das wachst, What I see, that waxes,
was ich [nicht] seh, das vergeht. what I see not, that decays.
I. N. G. u. s. w. In the name, etc.
For warts there is but one remedy ; they are to be got
rid of only in moonshine. During the moon's increase
go into the open air, look steadfastly at the moon, and
stroke with the hand over the warts, saying these words
Was ich ansehe, nimmt zu,
was ich iiberstreiche, nimmt ab.
What I look on increases,
what I stroke over decreases.
For a whitlow.
once each time.
Not to be uttered too rapidly, and only
De Adel un de Stoel,
The whitlow and the stool ^
de gungen beid an enen Poel. they went both to a pool.
De Adel de verswunn. The whitlow it disappear'd,
de Stoel de gewunn.
the stool it won.
I. N. G. u. s. w. In the name, etc.
For a pain in the finger.
Ik rad' en Baten
mit Ileisterknaken,
mit Kreieufciten,
I ad^-ise a cure
with magpies' bones,
with feet of crows,
schal dy de Weedag' uten Finger that shall drive the pain out of
staken.
For a sprained foot.
thy finger.
Ik hoi' myn Foet in'n Katten- I hold my foot in the cat's way,
gang' 2,
so stil ik wol den Gnirrband ^. and so I still the spram.
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Purgatio alvi ?
3 Correctly Knirrhand.
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Through which the cats can leap.