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 12 S. VII. SEPT. 25, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" for how "

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" extravagances "

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" but that "

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" inconveniences "

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" to Michaelmas "

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" twelvemonth "

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The University, Sheffield.

G. C. MOORE SMITH..

(To be continued.).

MODERN FOLK-LORE OF WARWICKSHIRE: CURES.

CHARMS against convulsions :

A red ribbon sewn round the baby's neck, (Whitchurch variant).

A ninefold ply of red silk knotted in front, and fastened on immediately after birth. (Stratford).

Rings made by twisting into a loop the twining stems of Travellers' Joy (Clematis vitalba) were placed round a child's neck as a cure for convulsions. (Stratford-upon- Avon).

The "Half wood " (Lycium chinense L), was used for the same purpose at Charlecot and Whitchurch. The stems were cut into half -inch lengths, threaded through one end so that each section hung suspended The plant was also used to cure lameness in swine, and a bundle was placed for that purpose in the wash-tub. The shrub is of the nightshade order (Solanaceae) and common in old-fashioned cottage -gardens, but why should such virtues be assigned to this alien ?

Necklaces made up of sections of elder Btems, cut into short lengths, were used as a

similar cure at Broad Marston, co. Gloucester but the elders must be such as grew upon the pollard willows by the brook, and must be cut by the father at full moon. Cramp Cures :

The swollen stem of the cramp -thistle, ie., the gall not infrequent on the flowering shoots of "Soldiers" (The Corn Thistle, Cnicus arvensis}.

A cork carried in the pocket.

Drawing the fingers between the toes;.

Turning one's boots with the soles uppermost.

These I heard from Thomas Harvey of Whichford, Sept. 16, 1913. The Onion and Fever :

Scarlet fever broke out at W^hitchurch in, the autumn of 1915. One young mother assured me she had taken away the chance of infection by peeling some onions and burying the peelings. At Stratford an onion was often suspended in a dwelling under the idea, that it would turn black if the house was, infected.