MISCELLANEOUS. 365 



in Hungary, November 20, 16^2;^ another, also, in the 

 newspapers of July 2d, 1810, to have fallen in France the 

 January preceding, accompanied by a shower of red snow.^ 



In the Muses Threnodie, p. 213, we read that "many are 

 the instances, even to this day, of charms practised among 

 the vulgar, especially among the Highlands, attended with 

 forms of prayer. In the Miscellaneous MS., written by 

 Baillie Dundee, among several medicinal receipts I find an 

 exorcism against all kinds of worms in the body, in the name 

 of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, to be repeated three 

 mornings, as a certain remedy."^ 



The Guahibo, Humboldt says, that ''eats everything that 

 exists above, and everything under ground," eats insects, 

 and particularly scolopendras and worms.^ The same trav- 

 eler also says he has seen the Indian children drag out of 

 the earth centipedes eighteen inches long, and more than 

 half an inch broad, and devour them.^ 



" The seventeene of March, 1586," says John Stow in his 

 Annales of England, "a strange thing happened, the like 

 whereof before hath not beene heard of in our time. Master 

 Dorington, of Spaldwicke, in the countie of Huntington, 

 esquier, one of his maiesties gentlemen Pensioners, had a 

 horse which died sodainly, and, being ripped to see the cause 

 of his death, there was found in the hole of the hart of the 

 same horse a strange worme, which lay on a round heape in 

 a kail or skin of the likeness of a toade, which, being taken 

 out and spread abroad, was in forme and fashion not casie to 

 be described, the length of which worme divided into many 

 greines to the number of fiftie (spread ft'om the bodie like 

 the branches of a tree), was from the snowte to the ende of 

 the longest greine, seventeene inches, having four issues in 

 the greines, from the which dropped foorth a red water ; the 

 body in bignes round about was three inches and a halfe, 

 the colour whereof was very like a makerel. This monstrous 

 worme, found in manner aforesaid, crauling to have got 

 away, was stabbed in with a dagger and died, which, after 

 being dried, was shewed to many honorable persons of the 

 realme."^ 



1 Ephem. Nat. Curios., 3 673. 80. 



2 K. and S. Introd., ii. 415, note. 



3 Brand's Pop. Antiq., iii. 273. 



* Pers. Nar., iv. 571. 5 Ibid., ii. 205. 



^ Ann. of Eng., p. 1219. 



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