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Certeine popish and magicall cures, for them that are

bewitched in their privities.

For direct cure to such as are bewitched in the priviemembers, the first and speciall is confession: then follow in a

row, holie water, and those cere moniall trumperies,Ave Maries,

and all maner of crossings; which are all said to be wholesome,

except the witchcraft be perpetuall, and in that case the wife maie

have a divorse of course.

Privie members: genitals.

Item, the eating of a haggister or pie helpeth one bewitched

in that member.Haggister or pie: magpie.

Item, the smoke of the tooth of a dead man.

Item, to annoint a mans bodie over with the gall of a crow.

Item, to fill a quill with quicke silver, and laie the same

under the cushine, where such a one sitteth, or else to put it under

the threshold of the doore of the house or chamber where he

dwelleth.

Item, to spet into your owne bosome, if you be sobewitched, is verie good.

Item, to pisse through a wedding ring. If you would know

who is hurt in his privities by witchcraft; and who otherwise is

therein diseased,Hostiensisanswer eth: but so, as I am ashamed

to english it: and therefore have here set down his experiment in

Latine; Quando virga nullatens movetur, & nunquam potuit

cognoscere; hoc est signum frigiditatis: sed quando movetur &

erigitur, perficere autem non potest, est signum maleficii.

Hostiensis: Henry of Segusio

(1200-1271).

But Sir Th. Moore hath such a cure in this matter, as I am

ashamed to write, either in Latine or English: for in filthie

bawderie it passeth all the tales that ever I heard. But that is rather

a medicine to procure generation, than the cure of witchcraft,

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though it serve both turnes.

Item, when ones instrument of venerie is bewitched,

certeine characters must be written in virgine parchment,

celebrated and holied by a popish priest; and thereon also mustthe 141. Psalme be written, and boundAd viri fascinati coxam.

Item, one Katharine Loe (having a husband not so readilie

disposed that waie as she wished him to be) made a waxen image

to the likenes of hir husbands bewitched member, and offered it

up at S. Anthonies altar; so as, through the holinesse of the masse

it might be sanctified, to be more couragious, and of better

disposition and abilitie, &c.