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 350 Correspondence.

Charm against Toothache.

{Afite, pp. 196.)

The following, which may well be identical with the Pembroke- shire charm above referred to, is in the Edinburgh Museum, m.arked No. 18.

" Petter was Laying and his head upon a marrable Ston wepmg and Christ came by and said what else thou Petter Petter answered and sad Lordgod my twoth Raise thou Petter and be healed and whosoever shall carry these lines in my name shall never feel the twothick.

Kett M'Aulay."

This is written on a piece of paper in tolerably clear though not cultivated manuscript. A description placed with it says that the paper is eight inches long, two-and-a-half broad, and that the charm was written and sold by a professional witch namedjKate M'Aulay, residing at Kishorn, Lochcarron, Ross-shire, in 1855 ; also that it was folded small and was worn in a small silk bag hung round the neck of a shepherd, who had given half- a-crown to the witch for the charm, which, however, was to lose its efificacy when looked at.

Herbert M. Bower.

[This is perhaps the commonest of all written charms found in the United Kingdom. The fullest version, a Latin one, occurs in Cockayne's Anglo-Saxon Zeechdo?ns, iii., 164. — Ed.]

MiDsuMiMER Bonfires. {A7ite, p. 105.)

The Rev. R. Spark, ALA., minister of this parish, has kindly copied for me the part of Mr. Hogg's will that refers to the Bonfire. The will is engrossed in the Session Records under date 1787. It is interesting to note that the fire (as I surmised) is referred to as an existing institution.