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told, were stuck in that part of the body of the image, in 

 which they wished the person to suffer. 



The same plan was adopted for inspiring another with 

 the ardor of love. 



Then mould her form of fairest loax, 

 "With adder's eyes and feet of horn ; 



Place this small scroll within its breast, 

 Which I, your friend, have hither borne. 



Then make a blaze of alder wood, 

 Before your fire make this to stand ; 



And the last night of every moon 

 The bonny May's at your command. 



Hogg's Mountain Bard, p. 35. 



Then it follows : 



With fire and steel to urge her weel. 

 See that you neither stint nor spare; 



For if the cock be heard to crow, 

 The charm Avill vanish into air. 



The wounds given to the image were supposed to be pro- 

 ductive of similar dounds of love in the tender heart of the 

 maiden whom it represented. 



A female form, of melting wax, 



Mess John surveyed with steady eye, 



Which ever an anon he pierced. 



And forced the lady loud to cry. — P. 84. 



The same horrid rites were observed on the continent. 

 For Grilland (de Sortilegiis) says : Quidam solent apponere 

 imaginem cerae juxta ignem ardentem, corapletis sacrificiis, 

 de quibus supra, & adhibere quasdam preces nefarias, & 

 turpia verba, ut quemadmodum imago ilia igne consumitur 

 & liquescit, eodera modo cor mulieris amoris calore talis 

 viri feruenter ardeat, etc. Malleus Malefic. T. H., p. 232. 



It cannot be doubted that these rites have been trans- 

 mitted from heathenism. Theocritus mentions them as 

 practiced by the Greeks in his time. For he introduces 

 Samoetha as using similar enchantments, partly for punish- 

 ing, and partly for regaining her faithless lover. 



But strew the salt, and say in angry tones, 

 "I scatter Delphid"s, perjured Delphid's bones. '\ 

 — First Delphid injured me, he raised my flame, 

 And now I burn this bough in Delphid's name ; 



