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celebrated conjurors, or fortune-tellers, 

 who are confulted by all the neighbours, 

 when their goods, or cattle are miffing; 

 thefe are Sionet Corn, of Denbigh, and 

 Dick Smot, of Ofweflry. 



The young people have many pre- 

 tended modes of foretelling their future 

 fweethearts, but moft of thefe being 

 common alfo aruongft the peafentry of 

 our own country, it would be ufelefs here 

 to repeat them. 



I have been informed, that a diforder 

 fomething fimilar to St. Anthony's fire, 

 called 1r Eryr, the eagle, is fuppofed 

 bythelabouringpeopletobealwayscured 

 by the following kind of charm. A man 

 or woman whofe father, grandfather, or 

 great-grandfather, have eaten the flefh 

 of that bird, is to fpit upon the part 

 affected, and rub it, and they fay 

 that it will certainly go away. A fer- 

 vent girl, belonging to a friend of mine, 



who 



