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Flies, Spiders, Scorpions, &c. to drive out. 



Burn a hoop's feathers in the room, and make 

 a smoke, then these insects that smell the smell 

 will be gone, and come no more. 



To drive away flies, and all otlier sorts of 

 Insects. 



All insects are driven away generally by means 

 either of hindering the breeding of them, and so 

 they destroy locusts eggs: or, we hinder their com- 

 ing by shutting all windows close; some things 

 drive them away and kill them: namely, fire and 

 cold: also any sharp, sour, or extreme bitter, as 

 / vinegar, or decoction of bays, wild cucumbers: 

 white hellebore, colloquintida or lupins will do it; 

 some things do it by the scent, as brimstone, vi- 

 triol flowers, and the leaves of elder, both corian- 

 ders, horns and hoofs; some things offend them 

 many wa)s, as rue and verdigrease. The ancients 

 used two things against them; pitch and lees of 

 oil; pitch defends from the air, and oil from living 

 creatures; storax, I observe by its scent or smoke, 

 will drive away almost all insects. 



To prevent Moths eating clothes. 



Take beaten pepper, lay it among your clothes, 

 airing them well first, and it will prevent them. 



Moths. Take the branches of bay tree and lay 

 among cloth or woollen, it preserves from moths, 

 worms, or corruption; so does moist hemp. 



Pieces of Russia leather put in boxes, prevents 

 moths and all other vermin. 



MotJis to destroy. 



About August they appear, and that mostly in 

 the night, and if you set a candle in an apjsle tree 

 lighted in the night, they will fly about it and 



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