_On St. Agnes’ Day._--This falls on the 21st of January. You must prepare yourself by a twenty-four hours fast, touching nothing but pure spring water, beginning at midnight on the 20th, to the same again on the 21st; then go to bed, and mind you sleep by yourself, and do not mention what you are trying to any one, or it will break the spell. Go to rest on your left side, and repeat these lines three times: St. Agnes, be a friend to me; In the gift I ask of thee; Let me this night my husband see, and you will dream of your future spouse. If you see more men than one in your dream, you will wed two or three times; but if you sleep and dream not, you will never marry. _By Bride Cake._--A slice of the bride cake thrice drawn through the wedding ring, and laid under the head of an unmarried woman, will cause her to dream of her future husband. _By the Garter and Stocking._--The party inquiring must live in a different county from that in which she commonly resides, and, on going to bed, must knit the left garter about the right legged stocking, letting the other garter and stocking alone; and as you rehearse the following verse, at every comma knit a knot: This knot I knit, to know the thing I know not yet, That I may see, the man that shall my husband be, How he goes and what he wears, And what he does all days and years. Accordingly, in a dream he will appear, with the insignia of his trade or profession. TO KNOW WHETHER A WOMAN SHALL HAVE THE MAN SHE WISHES. Get two lemon peels and wear them all day, one in each pocket, and at night rub the four posts of the bedstead with them; if she is to succeed, the person will appear in her sleep, and present her with a couple of lemons; if, not, there is no hope. TO KNOW IF A WOMAN WITH CHILD WILL HAVE A GIRL OR A BOY. Write the proper names of the father and the mother, and the month she conceived with child; add together the letters in these words, and divide the amount by seven; if the remainder be even, it will be a girl; if uneven, it will be a boy. TO KNOW IF A NEW-BORN CHILD SHALL LIVE OR NOT. Write the proper names of the father and the mother, and of the day the child was born; count the letters in these words, and to the amount add twenty-five, and then divide the whole by seven; if the remainder be even the child shall die, but if uneven, the child shall live. TO KNOW WHAT FORTUNE YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND WILL HAVE. Take a walnut, a hazel nut and a nutmeg; grate them together, and mix them with butter and sugar, and make them up into small pills, of which exactly nine must be taken on going to bed, and, according to your dreams, so will be the state of the person you will marry. If a gentleman, your dream will be of riches; if a clergyman, of white linen; if a lawyer, of darkness; if a tradesman, of odd noises and tumults; if a soldier or sailor, of thunder and lightning; if a servant, of rain. CHARM TO CURE THE HEADACHE.