"Take an onion, a tulip, or any root of the kind (i.e. a bulbous root?), and plant it in a clean pot never used before; and while you plant it repeat the name of the one whom you love, and every day, morning and evening, say over it:-- "'As this root grows And as this blossom blows, May her heart be Turned unto me!' "And it will come to pass that every day the one whom you love will be more and more inclined to you, till you get your heart's desire." A similar divination is practised by sowing cress or lettuce seed in the form of names in gardens. If it grows well the one who plants it will win the love of the person indicated. As regards the use of coals in incantations, Marcellus Burdigalensis, [8] a Latin physician of the third century, who has left us a collection of Latin and Gaelic charms, recommends for a cure for toothache: "Salis granum, panis micam, carbonem mortuum in phoenicio alligabis," i.e., to carry a grain of salt, a crumb of bread, and a coal, in a red bag. When the witch-brew of coals, garlic, and meal is made, and boiled down to a dry residuum, it is put into a small three-cornered bag, and hung about the child's neck, on which occasion the appropriate rhyme is repeated nine times. "And it is of special importance that the bag shall be made of a piece of linen, which must be stolen, found, or begged." To learn whether a child has been overlooked, or evil-eyed, or enchanted, the "wise woman" takes it in her arms, and goes to the next running stream. There she holds the face of the babe as nearly as she can to the water, and repeats:-- "Páñi, páñi sikova, Dikh the upré, dikh télé! Buti páñi sikovel Buti pál yákh the dikhel Te ákáná mudárel." "Water, water, hasten! Look up, look down! Much water hastens (May) as much come into the eye Which looked evil on thee, And may it now perish."