This was to be said thrice. CHARM FOR SPRAINS. (_Eòlas an t-sìochaidh._) This charm also to be efficacious must be thrice repeated. The variations in the versions met with, have been almost entirely in the omission of lines in some that are found in others: “A charm in sooth. The charm that Colum-Kil applied To a young man’s knee In the hill For pang, for swelling, For hurt, for wound, For abrasion, for sprain, For portions, for divisions, For varicose vein, for dislocated bone; Christ went out At early morn, He found the legs of horses, Broken by turns; When he alighted on the ground, He healed a horse’s leg; He put marrow to marrow, And bone to bone, He put blood to blood And flesh to flesh, Juice to juice, and vein to vein As he healed that, May he heal this, Because of Christ and His Powers together. One-third to-day, Two-thirds to-morrow, And the whole the day after.” Part of the charm consisted of a handful of earth from a grey mound (_làn an dùirn an ùir a cnoc glas_) applied to the foot. The sufferer must go three times _deiseal_ (southwardly) round the mound on Sunday. In the extreme west of Tiree there is a hillock called _Cnocan an t-sìachaidh_ (the hillock of the sprain), but the practice of using it for cures of this kind has become obsolete. CHARM FOR BRUISES. (_Eòlas Bruthaidh._) “Patera Mary one, Patera Mary two, etc., down to Patera Mary nine, Thou wilt flow like woman, Thou wilt flow like man, Thou wilt flow like royal fish; And the nine veins of thy body, In one stream together.” CHARM FOR RHEUMATIC PAINS. _Eòlas Galar Tholl_ (lit. perforating disease). “Close God about thee, Look people over thee, To Christ, or else— Lift from us the gallows, Away, away, Thy poison in the ground, And thy pain in the stone.” Otherwise: “An arrow thrown with sudden terror, Salt to cure the wound, Jesus Christ to keep the Elfin arrow quiet, The charm of God about thee, Blind are people over thee, Thy covering about Colum-Kil, And the covering of Colum-Kil about thee, To protect thee and watch over thee Against the people of this world And of the next.” CHARM FOR CONSUMPTION. (_Eòlas na Caitheamh._) This was to be said on a Thursday and on two Sundays. As in the case of other charms, some days of the year were more favourable than others, and the top of the ninth wave should be used in sprinkling the patient: “Let me tread on thee, tightness, As the swan treads on the shore, Tightness of the back, tightness of the chest, Tightness of the throat, To strip from thee the foul disease, From the top of thy head to thy sole, To thy two thighs beyond, By the might of God and His powers together.” FOR AFFECTIONS OF THE CHEST. (_’Air Son Iomairt Cléibh._)