Take a sheep’s heart, pierce nails into it, and hang it in the chimney, saying:--_Rostin, Clasta Auvara, Chasta, Custodia, Duranee_. These words must be said over the heart every day, and eight days will not have elapsed before the sorcerer who has cast the spell will come and beg you to remove the heart, complaining that he feels great pain internally. You can then ask him to remove the spell, and he will request you to give him some animal to which he may transfer it. You may grant what he asks, otherwise he will burst asunder. A PRESERVATIVE AGAINST SPELLS, TO BE HUNG ROUND THE NECK. Take nine bits of green broom, and two sprigs of the same, which you must tie together in the form of a cross (×); nine morsels of elder, nine leaves of betony, nine of agrimony, a little bay salt, sal-ammoniac, new wax, barley, leaven, camphor and quick-silver. The quick-silver must be inclosed in cobbler’s wax. Put the whole into a new linen cloth which has never been used, and sew it well up so that nothing may fall out. Hang this round your neck. It is a sure preservative against the power of witches. TO WIN AT PLAY On St. John’s Eve gather fern before noon. Make a bracelet of it in the form of these letters--H U T Y. TO MAKE PEACE BETWEEN MEN WHO ARE FIGHTING. Write on the circumference of an apple the letters H A O N and throw it into the midst of the combatants. TO STOP BLEEDING. Touching the part affected, say:--_Place + + + Consummatum + + + Resurrexit_. TO CURE A BURN. Repeat these words thrice over the burn, breathing thereon each time:-- _“Feu de Dieu, perds ta chaleur,_ _Comme Judas perdit sa couleur,_ _Quand il trahit notre Seigneur,_ _Au jardin des oliviers.”_[201] [201] EDITOR’S NOTE.--Another form is as follows.-- Brulure, brulure, mollis ta chaleur, Comme Judas perdit sa couleur En trahissant notre Seigneur. --_From John de Garis, Esq._ TO STOP A FIRE THAT IS BURNING A HOUSE. Make three crosses on the mantel-piece with a live coal, and say:--“_In te Domine speravi, non confundar in æternum_.” TO CAUSE A PERSON TO LOVE YOU. Take four-leaved clover and place it on a consecrated stone; then say a Mass over it, put it into a nosegay, and make the person smell it, saying at the same time “_Gabriel illa sunt_.” ANOTHER MEANS. On St. John’s Eve gather clecampane (alliène de campana), dry it in an oven, reduce it to powder with ambergris, and wear it next your heart for nine days. Then endeavour to get the person whose love you wish to obtain, to swallow a portion of it, and the effect is sure to follow. TO PREVENT A SPORTSMAN FROM KILLING ANY GAME. Say:--“_Si ergo me quæritis, sinite hos abire_.” TO CURE A HORSE THAT HAS THE VIVES OR THE GRIPES.[202]