Teeth which have been buried for many years, serve to make a singular fetish. They are mingled with the bones of a tree-frog, and the whole then sewed up in a little bag. If a man has anything for sale, and will draw or rub this bag over it, he will have many offers or customers for the articles thus enchanted. The bones are prepared by putting the frog into a glass or earthen receptacle full of small holes. This is buried in an ant-hill. The ants enter the holes and eat away all the flesh, leaving the bones which after a few weeks are removed. [4] To bear healthy and strong children women wear a string of bears' claws and children's teeth. Dr. von Wlislocki cites, apropos of this, a passage from Jacobus Rueff, "Von Empfengnussen": "Etlich schwanger wyber pflägend einen bären klauen von einem bären tapen yngefaszet am hals zuo tragen" (Some women when with child are accustomed to wear mounted bears' claws on their necks). In like manner boars' teeth, which much resemble them, are still very commonly worn in Austria and Italy and almost over all Europe and the East. It is but a few days since I here, in Florence, met with a young English lady who had bought a very large one mounted in silver as a brooch, but who was utterly unaware that there was any meaning attached to it. [5] I have a very ancient bear's tooth and whistle in silver, meant for a teething child. It came from Munich. Pain in the eyes is cured with a wash made of spring or well water and saffron. During the application the following is recited:-- "Oh dukh ándrál yákhá Já ándré páñi Já andrál páñi André safráne André pçuv. Já andrál pçuv Kiyá Pçuvusheske.-- Odoy hin cerçá, Odoy ja te ça." "Oh, pain from the eyes Go into the water, Go out of the water Into the saffron, Go out of the saffron Into the earth. To the Earth-Spirit. There's thy home. There go and eat."