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A Night Spell to catch Thieves.

The following will drive away any evil Spirit that haunts houses or other places; and having it about you, no thief can harm you ; but if he comes to rob a gar- en, orchard, or a house, he cannot go All the sun rises. You must have in the ur corners of the house this sentence written upon fine true virgin parchment:

mnes Spiritus laudet Dominum Mosem habe, rophetas exerget Deus, dissipari inter inimicos.

But if for a garden or orchard, it must be placed at the four corners thereof; and if to keep one from being robbed on the road, to have it always about him, and fear God. If your spell be set in the hour of iars, which you may know by this col, you may be assured of success in our endeavours to catch a thief. If any one think there is harm in it, et him not use it; for my part I can and none. He that covets the love of a woman, must court her in the hour of Venus,