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When Children shaled their Teeth the women use to wrap, or put salt about the tooth, and so throw it into a good fire. The above-mentioned Cramer saith that in Germany, in his native Country, some women will bid their Children to take the Tooth, which is fallen or taken out, and goe to a dark comer of the house or Parlour, and cast the same into it thereby saying these words:

(or Iron Tooth), beleeving, that another good tooth will grow in its place.