Bible, suspendue à une grosse clé par un mouchoir fin. Mistriss B. ne
se rappelait pas avoir reçu un bijou qu'un Aleppin affirmait lui avoir
remis. Le Syrien disait une prière, puis prononçait alternativement
les noms de la dame et de l'Aleppin. La Bible pivota au nom de la dame
déclarée par-là en erreur. Elle se leva à l'instant, et ayant fait des
recherches plus exactes, finit par trouver le bijou."

I hardly think that this would be an English superstition transplanted
to the East; it is more probable that it was originally derived frown
Syria.

E.C.

Newcastle-on-Tyne, May 19. 1850.


_Charm for Warts_.--Count most carefully the number of warts; take a
corresponding number of nodules or knots from the stalks of any of the
_cerealia_ (wheat, oats, barley); wrap these in a cloth, and deposit
the packet in the earth; _all the steps of the operation being done
secretly_. As the nodules decay the warts will disappear. Some artists
think it necessary that each wart should be _touched_ by a separate
nodule.

This practice was very rife in the north of Scotland some fifty years
since, and no doubt is so still. It was regarded as very
effective, and certainly had plenty of evidence of the
_post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc_ order in its favour.

Is this practice prevalent in England?