If you would be rich, you must go out on Twelfth-night to a cross-road
where five ways meet, one of which leads to a church; and you must take
with you in your hands a gray calfskin and an axe. When you reach the
cross-road, you must sit down on the calfskin, the tail of which must
be extended in the direction of the road which leads to the churchyard.
Then you must look fixedly at the axe, which must be made as sharp as
possible. Towards midnight, the goblins will come in multitudes and
put gold in great heaps round you, to try and make you look up, and
they will chatter, grimace, and grin at you. But when at length they
have failed in causing you to look aside, they will begin to take hold
of the tail of the calfskin and drag it away, with you upon it. Then
you will be fortunate if you can succeed in cutting off the tail with
the axe without looking about you and without damaging the axe. If you
succeed, the goblins will vanish, and all the gold will remain by you.
Otherwise, if you look about you or damage the axe, it will be all up
with you.