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 When children did shalle they rubbed salt upon it, and then threw it into the fire (and also for the Teeth of old people). [See p. 10.]

On St Stephens day the Farrier came constantly and blouded all   Cart-horses, &c. So in Germany. Cramer.

[Horseshoes and Witches.] A Horse-shoe nailed on the threshold of dore is yet in fashion: and no where more than in London: it ought (Mr. Lilly sayes) to be a Horse-shoe that one finds by chance on the Roade. The end of it is to prevent the power of Witches, that come into your house.

So in Germany common people doe naile such an Horse-shoe on the Threshold of the doore. So neere the main-mast in ships..... [See Miscellanies, p. 140.]

Mat. Nayler was advised by the Wizard of Feversh. in Kent to leap three times over a small running streame, to prevent her being taken, when she escaped out of prison. Something like this in Ovid's Fastor:

——manibus puram fluminis hausit aquam, Ter caput irrorat, ter tollit ad aethera palmas. Ovid's Fastor. lib. iv. [314-5.]

& then she makes her imprecations.—[See p. 9.]

[Music at Meals.] In Wales, the Gentlemen have their Harpers, who play to them at Dinner & supper; and so have the Irish. 'Tis & old Custome derived from the Trojans (Brute) who came hither, v. Tho: Walsingham de hoc, &c., who sayes, that it was about time of Prophet Samuel; he acquainted  Pope, that upon a carefull search of ancient Records he found that the Britons are descended from the Trojans about  time of Samuel. In like manner, Evander and also Hercules came out of Greece into Italie; but the many Greeke words that remain in the British language (more than Latin from the Romans being here) doe