“I will trample on thee, tightness, As on mountain dust to-night; On thyself be thy blackening, dwarfing power, Evil and painful is that. The charm which Patrick put On the mother of the son of the King of Iver, To kill the worms Round the veins of her heart, For the four and twenty afflictions In her constitution; For the water of the running stream of her boundary, For the stones of the earth’s waves, For the weakness of her heart, For jaundice and distemper, For withering and for asthma.” CHARM FOR TOOTHACHE. (_Eòlas an Déide._) It is not difficult to persuade a man distracted with toothache to try any remedy in reason that offers any hope of relief. It would be curious if a charm were not forthcoming. The writer has recovered only a portion of the Gaelic version. The following English charm was obtained ten years ago in Tiree, and probably came originally from the Isle of Man. It was to be sewn up in the clothes and worn about the person, and was given to those who applied for it for a small consideration. This was to be on Sunday, and payment was not to be asked for. If that had to be done, the charm was useless. The copy is word for word: “In the name of lord petter sat on a marble stone aweeping Christ came by and said what else you petter petter said o lord my god my dok toockage christ said o lord petter be whole and not thou only but all that carry these lines in my name shall never have the toock Christ cure the toockaig.” MADE FOR MERRION MACFADYN. In a small tract called Peacock’s _Guide to the Isle of Man_ (p. 66), the following version is given as in use in that island: “Peter was ordained a saint Standing on a marble stone, Jesus came to him alone, And said to him, ‘Peter! What is it that makes thee shake?’ Peter replied, ‘My Lord and Master, It is the toothache’; Jesus said to him, ‘Rise up and be healed! Keep these words for my sake, And thou shalt nevermore be troubled with toothache’.” The Gaelic is to the same effect: “The charm Colum-Kil applied To Mal-ii’s right knee, For gnawing and lancinating pain and toothache, Toothache and disease of the head. ... Then said Peter to James, ‘I can get no peace or rest with the toothache.’ ... Christ said, ‘Answer the question, And the toothache and the verse Will never be in the same head together’.” CHARMS FOR CATTLE. These were even more numerous than those for the distempers of men. Cattle are nowadays better housed, fed, and attended to, and hence are not so liable to ill-understood ailments that gave persons of ‘skill’ employment. In the case of any beast being seized with distemper, this short charm might prove of use: “Whoever has done you this deed of malice, A brown man or white woman, I send these Three to check them, The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.”