Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 23, 1912.djvu/255

 Correspondence. 233

young Child who Sucks, being sweetned with Sugar, it doth firmly knit the Navel, and keep him from a Rupture ; but this said Juice and Ingredients must be first twice Distilled.

Of the Lemmon Tree. Take a green Lemmon and wet it in Witie Vittegar, and sew it in a Bag, and bind it to the Nape of the Neck, and immediately stops the Bleeding.

Of the Sassafras Tree. This is an Excellent Tree, and of Divers Vertues, his Magical vertues are by his Smell, and that is for the Megrim and such like pains of the Head ; and most Excellent against the Falling Sick- ness. The Decoction of Sassafras is a great dryer, it cureth the Rheum ; the Salt of it is a very Excellent thing for many Diseases. . ..

Of the Yew Tree.

The Berries of a Yew Tree dried, and worn in a little Bag about the Neck, doth wonderfully help the Trembling of the Bearf, and is good against the Kings Evil, and stayeth Bleeding at the

Nose

Of the Lime Tree.

Take a piece of a Fingers breath [sic], of the bigness and square of the Timber of this Tree, and if anyone be Hurt, or Bleed at the Nose, write his Name on one side of the Stick, and on the con- trary side the Character of O R, then burn the Stick, and it ceaseth Bleeding Immediately.-

Of the Wild Ash Tree. Take a cluster of the Green Berries and convey them about the Party Suspected to be a JVitch, and then examine her, and she will confess. Take a cluster of the same Berries and hang them about a Horse Neck, and it will cure him of the Farcy or Fashions. Take three Ripe Berries of the said Tree, and pound them, and give them in JP'hite JVine, and it doth absolutely cure the Yellow Jaundice.

Of the Service Tree.

The Fruit of it dryed and worn about the Neck stoppeth Bleeding ;. ..

^See W, G. Black, Folk-Medicine, cap. ii. (Transference of Disease).