Marsham peewits, and Hevingham liars."

These are four villages on the road between Norwich and Cromer. A third
couplet alludes merely to the situation of a group of villages near the
sea-coast,--

"Gimingham, Trimingham, Knapton, and Trunch,
Northrepps and Southrepps, hang all in a bunch."

E.S.T.


_Throwing Salt over the Shoulder_.--This custom I have frequently
observed, of taking a pinch of salt without any remark, and flinging it
over the shoulder. I should be glad to know its origin.

E.S.T.


_Charming for Warts_.--In Vol. i., p. 19., a correspondent asks if the
custom of "charming for warts" prevails in England.

A year or two ago I was staying in Somersetshire, and having a wart
myself, was persuaded to have it "charmed." The village-charmer was
summoned; he first cut off a slip of elder-tree, and made a notch in it
for every wart. He then rubbed the elder against each, strictly
enjoining me to think no more about it, as if I looked often at the
warts the charm would fail.

In about a week the warts had altogether disappeared, to the delight of