It would be an interesting question to know how many good people there are, let us say in London, who, if they had an opportunity to work off all their colds, gouts, scarlet-fevers, tooth- head- and stomach-aches, with the consequent doctors' bills, or all suffering and expenses, on some other family by means of secret sorcery, would or would not "try it on"? It is curious to observe the resemblance of the gypsy ceremony, with its box full of mischief, and the Jewish goat; not forgetting the red wool handed down from heathen sacrifice and sorcery of old. In the Bible white wool is the symbol of purification (Isaiah i. 18). The feet of the statues of the gods were enveloped in wool--Dii laneos habent pedes--to signify that they are slow to avenge, if sure. It is altogether an interesting object, this gypsy casket, and one would like to know what all the channels were through which the magic ran ere it came to them. Another cure against the fever is to go to a running stream and cast pieces of wood nine times backwards into the running water, repeating the rhymes:-- "Shilályi prejiá, Páñori me tut 'dáv! Náñi me tut kámáv; Andakode prejiá, Odoy tut cuciden, Odoy tut ferinen, Odoy tut may kámen! Mashurdalo sástyár!" "Fever go away from me, I give it, water, unto thee! Unto me thou art not dear, Therefore go away from here To where they nursed thee, Where they shelter thee, Where they love thee, Mashurdalo--help!"