Seven different herbs must be used for making a herb poultice.

"The editor remembers a female relation of a former vicar of St.
Erth, who, instructed by a dream, prepared decoctions of various
herbs, and repairing to the Land's End, poured them into the sea,
with certain incantations, with the expectation of seeing the
Lionesse rise immediately out of the water having all its
inhabitants alive, notwithstanding their long immersion."--Davies
Gilbert's _Cornwall_, vol. iii. p. 310.

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If the fire blazes up brightly when the crock is hung up, it is a sign
there is a stranger coming.

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_Cure for Thrush_.--Take the child to a running stream, draw a straw
through its mouth, and repeat the verse, "Out of the mouth of babes and
sucklings," &c.

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A creature of enormous size, called a "bull-frog," is believed to live
under the foundation stones of old houses, hedges, &c. I remember having
heard it spoken of with great awe.

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_Hen and Chickens._--In a parish adjoining Dartmoor is a green fairy