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(_c._) _For stopping Blood._
"Our Blessed Saviour was born in Bethlehem and baptized in the river
Jordan.
'The Waters were wild and rude.
The child Jesus was meek, mild, and good.'
He put His foot into the waters, and the waters stopped, and so shall
thy blood, in the Name," &c.
(d.) _For the Tooth-ache._
"All glory! all glory! all glory! be to the Father, and to the Son, and
to the Holy Ghost.
"As our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ was walking in the garden of
Gethsamene, He saw Peter weeping. He called him unto Him, and said,
Peter why, weepest thou? Peter answered and said, Lord, I am grievously
tormented with pain, the pain of my tooth. Our Lord answered and said,
If thou wilt believe in Me, and My words abide with thee, thou shalt
never feel any more pain in thy tooth. Peter said, Lord, I believe,
help Thou my unbelief. In the Name, &c.
"God grant M. N. ease from the pain in his teeth."
(_e._) _For Fits._--Go into a church at midnight and walk three times round
the communion table. This was done in this parish a few years since.
(_f._) An inhabitant of this parish told me that his father went into
Lydford Church, at twelve o'clock at night, and cut off some lead from
every diamond pane in the windows with which he made a heart, to be worn by
his wife afflicted with "_breastills_," i.e. _sore breasts_.
(_g._) The skin cast by a snake is very useful in extracting thorns, &c.
from the body, but, unlike I other remedies, it is repellent, not
attractive; hence it must always be applied on the opposite side to that on
which the thorn entered. In some cases where the skin has been applied on
the same side, it has forced the thorn completely through the hand.
_Lent Lilies.--Oak Webs, &c._--In this part of Cornwall, the native yellow
narcissus, known in most counties, and in the books, as _daffodils_ (the
"Daffy Down Dilly" of your correspondent, Vol. iii. p. 220.), are called
only by the name of _Lent lilies_, or simply _Lents_, and are commonly sold
by the poor children, frequently in exchange for _pins_. The pleasing name
reminds one of Michaelmas Daisy (_Chrysanthemum_), Christmas rose
(_Helleborus niger_), and the beautiful pasque flower (_Anemone
pulsatilla_).
The common beetle called cockchafer is here known only as the _oak-web_,
and a smaller beetle as _fern-web_. It seems hard to guess why they should
be named _web_ (which in Anglo-Saxon means _weaver_), as they do not, I
think, form any cocoon.