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_Holy Thursday Rain-water._--In the parish of Marston St. Lawrence,
Northamptonshire, there is a notion very prevalent, that rain-water
collected on Holy Thursday is of powerful efficacy in all diseases of the
_eye_. Ascension-day of the present year was very favourable in this
respect to these village oculists, and numbers of the cottagers might be
seen in all directions collecting the precious drops as they fell. Is it
known whether this curious custom prevails elsewhere? and what is supposed
to be the origin of it?