procured, and the wart touched or pricked with a gooseberry thorn
through the ring.

_To cure Epilepsy_, take three drops of sow's milk.

_To cure Blisters_ in a cow's mouth, cut the blisters; then slit the
upper part of the tail, insert a clove of garlic, and tie a piece of
_red cloth_ round the wound.

_To cure the Murrain in Cows_.--This disease is supposed to be
caused by the cow having been stung about the mouth while feeding, in
consequence of contact with some of the larger larvæ of the moth (as
of the Death's-head Sphynx, &c.), which have a soft fleshy horn on
their tails, erroneously believed to be a sting. If a farmer is so
lucky as to procure one of these rare larvæ, he is to bore a hole in
an _ash tree_, and plug up the unlucky caterpillar alive in it. The
leaves of that ash tree will, from thenceforth, be a specific against
the disease.

The universal prevalence of the superstition concerning the ash is
extremely curious.

J.G.

Kilkenny. {350}


_Death-bed Superstition_.--See _Guy Mannering_, ch. xxvii. and note
upon it:--