The wise wives among the gypsies in Hungary have many kinds of miraculous salves for sale to cure different disorders. These they declare are made from the fat of dogs, bears, wolves, frogs, and the like. As in all fetish remedies they are said to be of strange or revolting materials, like those used by Canidia of yore, the witches of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and of Burns in Tam O'Shanter. When a man has been "struck by a spirit" there results a sore, swelling or boil, which is cured by a sorceress as follows: The patient is put into a tent by himself, and is given divers drinks by his attendant; then she rubs the sufferer with a salve, the secret of which is known only to her, while she chants:-- "Prejiá, prejiá, prejiá, Kiyá miseçeske, ác odoy; Trianda sapa the çaven tut, Trianda jiuklá tut cingeren, Trianda káçná tut cunáven!" "Begone, begone, begone To the Evil One; stay there. May thirty snakes devour thee, Thirty dogs tear thee, Thirty cocks swallow thee!" After this she slaughters a black hen, splits it open, and lays it on the boil. Then the sufferer must drink water from three springs or rivulets, and throw wood nine times into the fire daily until he is well. But black hens cost money, according to Wlislocki; albeit the gypsies, like the children of the Mist in "Waverley," are believed to be acquainted with a far more economical and direct method of obtaining such commodities. Therefore this expensive and high-class cure is not often resorted to, and when it is the sorceress generally substitutes something cheaper than poultry. It may be here observed that the black hen occurs frequently in mediæval witch-lore and legend as a demon-symbol (Wolf, "Niederländische Sagen," pp. 647, 650). Thus the bones of sorcerors turn into black hens and chickens, and it is well if your black hen dies, for if she had not you would have perished in her place. Black hens were walled up in castles as sacrifices to the devil, that the walls might long endure; hence the same fowl occurs in the arms of the family of Henneberg (Nork, "Mythologie der Volkssagen," p. 381). The lore on this subject is very extensive. The following remedy against headache is in general use among Transylvanian gypsies. The patient's head is rubbed, and then washed, with vinegar or hot water while the following charm is repeated:-- "Oh duk ándro m'ro shero The o dád miseçescro, Adá dikhel ákáná, Man tu máy dostá, márdyás, Miro shero tu márdyás! Tu ná ac tu ándre me. Já tu, já tu, já kere. Káy tu miseç cucides, Odoy, odoy sikoves! Ko jál pro m'ro ushályin, Adáleske e duk hin!" "Oh, pain in my head, The father of all evil, Look upon thee now! Thou hast greatly pained me, Thou tormentest my head, Remain not in me! Go thou, go thou, go home, Whence thou, Evil One, didst suck, Thither, thither hasten! Who treads upon my shadow, To him be the pain!"