"Bandy-legged Borachio Mustachio Whiskerifusticus, the bald and brave Bombardino of Bagdad, helped Abomilique Bluebeard Bashaw of Babelmandel beat down an abominable bumblebee at Balsora." But to the other witches. Their charms were repeated sometimes in their own language and sometimes in gibberish. When the Scotch witches wanted to fly away to their "Witches' Sabbath," they straddled a broom-handle, a corn stalk, a straw, or a rush, and cried out "Horse and hattock, in the Devil's name!" and immediately away they flew, "forty times as high as the moon," if they wished. Some English witches in Somersetshire used instead to say, "Thout, tout, throughout and about;" and when they wished to return from their meeting they said "Rentum, tormentum!" If this form of the charm does not manufacture a horse, not even a saw-horse, then I recommend another version of it, thus: "Horse and pattock, horse and go! Horse and pellats, ho, ho, ho!" German witches said (in High Dutch:) "Up and away! Hi! Up aloft, and nowhere stay!" Scotch witches had modes of working destruction to the persons or property of those to whom they meant evil, which were strikingly like the negro obeah or mandinga. One of these was, to make a hash of the flesh of an unbaptised child, with that of dogs and sheep, and to put this goodly dish in the house of the victim, reciting the following rhyme: "We put this untill this hame In our Lord the Devil's name; The first hands that handle thee. Burned and scalded may they be! We will destroy houses and hald, With the sheep and nolt (_i. e._ cattle) into the fauld; And little shall come to the fore (_i. e._ remain,) Of all the rest of the little store." Another, used to destroy the sons of a certain gentleman named Gordon was, to make images for the boys, of clay and paste, and put them in a fire, saying: "We put this water among this meal For long pining and ill heal, We put it into the fire To burn them up stock and stour (_i. e._ stack and band.) That they be burned with our will, Like any stikkle (stubble) in a kiln." In case any lady reader finds herself changed into a hare, let her remember how the witch Isobel Gowdie changed herself from hare back to woman. It was by repeating: "Hare, hare, God send thee care! I am in a hare's likeness now; But I shall be woman even now-- Hare, hare, God send thee care!" About the year 1600 there was both hanged and burned at Amsterdam a poor demented Dutch girl, who alleged that she could make cattle sterile, and bewitch pigs and poultry by saying to them "Turius und Shurius Inturius." I recommend to say this first to an old hen, and if found useful it might then be tried on a pig.