il and pierce it through with a thorn, and leave it to die
on the bush; as it disappears so will your warts.

_Charm for removing a Stye from the eye_.

Take an ordinary knitting needle, and pass it back and fore over the
stye, but without touching it, and at the same time counting its age,
thus--One stye, two styes, three styes, up to nine, and then reversing
the order, as nine styes, eight styes, down to one stye, and _no_ stye.
This counting was to be done in one breath. If the charmer drew his
breath the charm was broken, but three attempts were allowed. The stye,
it was alleged, would die from that hour, and disappear in twenty-four
hours.

_Charms for Quinsy_.

Apply to the throat hair cut at midnight from the black shoulder stripe
of the colt of an ass.

_Charming the Wild Wart_.

Take a branch of elder tree, strip off the bark, split off a piece, hold
this skewer near the wart, and rub the wart three or nine times with the
skewer, muttering the while an incantation of your own composing, then
pierce the wart with a thorn. Bury the skewer transfixed with the thorn
in a dunghill. The wart will rot away just as the buried things decay.

_Charm for Rheumatism_.

Carry a potato in your pocket, and when one is finished, supply its place
with another.

_Charm for removing the Ringworm_.

1. Spit on the ground the first thing in the morning, mix the spittle
with the mould, and then anoint the ringworm with this mixture.

2. Hold an axe over the fire until it perspires, and then anoint the
ringworm with the sweat.

_Cattle Charms_.

Mr. Hamer in his "Parochial Account of Llanidloes" published in _The
Montgomeryshire Collections_, vol x., p. 249, states that he has in his
possession two charms that were actually used for the protection of live
stock of two small farms. One of them opens thus:--

"In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.
Amen . . . and in the name of Lord Jesus Christ my redeemer, that I
will give relief to --- creatures his cows, and his calves, and his
horses, and his sheep, and his pigs, and all creatures that alive be
in his possession, from all witchcraft and from all other assaults of
Satan. Amen."

Mr. Hamer further states that:--

"At the bottom of the sheet, on the left, is the magical word,
_Abracadabra_, written in the usual triangular form; in the centre, a
number of pla