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Popular Romances of the West of England, Second Series

by Robert Hunt

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Cure for Colic in Towednack

To stand on one’s head for a quarter of an hour.

For a Scald or Burn

“There came three angels out of the East,
One brought fire and two brought frost;
Out fire and in frost,
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
          Amen!”

Bramble-leaves, or sometimes the leaves of the common dock, wetted with spring water, are employed in this charm, as also in the following one.

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