Old eggs, old lovers, and an old horse, Are either rotten or for the worse. (Original: Alte Eyer Alte Freier-- Alter Gaul Sind meistens faul.) "All eggs are of the same size" (Eggs are all alike), he said, and grabbed the biggest. As like as eggs (Old Roman). As sure as eggs. His eggs all have two yolks. If you have many eggs you can have many cakes. He who has many eggs scatters many shells. To throw an egg at a sparrow. To borrow trouble for eggs not yet hatched. Half an egg is worth more than all the shell. A drink after an egg, and a leap after an apple. A rotten egg in his face. In the early mythology, the egg, as a bird was hatched from it, and as it resembled seeds, nuts, &c., from which new plants come, was regarded as the great type of production. This survives in love-charms, as when a girl in the Tyrol believes she can secure a man's love by giving him a red Easter egg. This giving red eggs at Easter is possibly derived from the ancient Parsees, who did the same at their spring festival. Among the Christians the reproductive and sexual symbolism, when retained, was applied to the resurrection of the body and the immortality of the soul. Hence Easter eggs. And as Christ by His crucifixion caused this, or originated the faith, we have the ova de crucibus, the origin of which has puzzled so many antiquaries; for the cross itself was, like the egg, a symbol of life, in earlier times of reproduction, and in a later age of life eternal. These eggs are made of a large size of white glass by the Armenian Christians. CHAPTER V. CHARMS OR CONJURATIONS TO CURE OR PROTECT ANIMALS. From the earliest ages a drum or tambourine has formed such an indispensable adjunct of Shamanic sorcery among Tartars, Lapps, Samoyedes, Eskimo, and Red Indians, that, taking it with other associations, I can hardly believe that it has not been transmitted from one to the other. In Hungary the gypsies when they wish to know if an invalid will recover, have recourse to the cováçanescro buçlo (chovihanescro buklo) or "witch-drum." This is a kind of rude tambourine covered with the skin of an animal, and marked with stripes which have a special meaning. On this are placed from nine to twenty-one seeds of the thorn-apple (stramonium). The side of the drum is then gently struck with a little hammer, and according to the position which the seeds take on the marks, the recovery or death of the patient is predicted. The following is a picture of a gypsy drum as given by Dr. Wlislocki.