I have in the chapter on curing the disorders of children spoken of Lilith, or Herodias, who steals the new-born infants. She and her twelve daughters are also types of the different kinds of fever for which the gypsies have so many cures of the same character, precisely as those which were used by the old Bogomiles. The characteristic point is that this female spirit is everywhere regarded as the cause of catalepsy or fits. Hence the invocation to St. Sisinie is used in driving them away. This invocation written, is carried as an amulet or fetish. I give the translation of one of these from the Roumanian, in which the Holy Virgin is taken as the healer. It is against cramp in the night:-- "Spell Against Night-cramp. "There is a mighty hill, and on this hill is a golden apple-tree. "Under the golden apple-tree is a golden stool. "On the stool--who sits there? "There sits the Mother of God with Saint Maria; with the boxes in her right hand, with the cup in her left. "She looks up and sees naught, she looks down and sees my Lord and Lady Disease. "Lords and Ladies Cramp, Lord and Lady Vampire--Lord Wehrwolf and his wives. "They are going to ---- (the sufferer), to drink his blood and put in him a foul heart. "The Mother of God, when she saw them, went down to them, spoke to them, and asked them, 'Whither go ye, Lord and Lady Disease, Lords and Ladies Cramp, &c.?' "'We go to ---- to drink his blood, to change his heart to a foul one.' "'No, ye shall return; give him his blood back, restore him his own heart, and leave him immediately.' "Cramps of the night, cramps of the midnight, cramps of the day, cramps wherever they are. From water, from the wind, go out from the brain, from the light of the face, from the hearing of the ears, from his heart, from his hands and feet, from the soles of his feet. "Go and hide where black cocks never crow, [6] where men never go, where no beast roars. "Hide yourself there, stop there, and never show yourself more! "May ---- remain pure and glad, as he was made by God, and was fated by the Mother of God! "The spell is mine--the cure is God's." In reference to the name Herodias (here identified with Lilith, the Hebrew mother of all devils and goblins); it was a great puzzle to the writers on witchcraft why the Italian witches always said they had two queens whom they worshipped--Diana and Herodias. The latter seems to have specially presided at the witch-dance. In this we can see an evident connection with the Herodias of the New Testament.