 | P.P. - London. - Notes and Queries - 1859 - 386 sider
...it during the month of May, will surely be followed by some great misfortune. 6. Cure for Jits. — If a young woman has fits, she applies to ten or a...obtains from each of them a small piece of silver of any kigd, as a piece of a broken spoon, or ring, or brooch, buckle, and even -sometimes a small coin, and... | |
 | Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon - 1893 - 226 sider
...head-ache. (Taken down from the old gardener at Grundisburgh Hall.) Cure for Epilepsy or Hysteria. — If a young woman has fits she applies to ten or a...a small piece of silver of any kind, as a piece of broken spoon or ring, or brooch, or buckle, or even sometimes a small coin, and a penny (without telling... | |
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... of a broken spoon, or ring, or brooch, buckle, and even sometimes a small coin, and a penny ; the twelve pieces of silver are taken to a silversmith or other worker in metal, who forms therefrom a ring, which is to be worn by the person afflicted.... 