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168 ague; write them, I say, on the cheek. Or take some tow and wool, and mix them together, and make nine lumps of it, and singe it thrice and place a red cloth underneath. Then repeat the charm, and with a black-handled knife make the sign of the cross, and sing: O Christ our God, with thy undefiled hand cast forth the mischief whatsoever it be; O Saint Allpitiful, O ye saints Cosmas and Damian, first physicians of the world, chase away the mischief, whatsoever it be: be it erysipelas, or the jaundice, or [some complaints which I do not understand], whether it come from woman, or creeping thing, or bird, or unrighteous thing, or fount, or plain, or yard, or roof, or water, or dry land, or or wood, or knife, or bludgeon, or mill-race (?), or bird-scarer's tower, or Kali-Kazaros (?), or goat, or sheep, or marsh, or a thing of the night or the evening, or night-talker,  or at mid-day, seen or unseen, deaf, dumb, or speaking; as flow the founts, or rivers, or springs, so may this mischief flow and flee, whatsoever it be." Then follows a list of diseases, and the writer adds, "or be it supernatural from the Nereids, as