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he writes, above all. " New- wedded wives were 

 wont upon their marriage-day to anoint the fide- 

 pofts of their hufbands therwith at their firft 

 entrance, to the end that no charms, witchcrafts, 

 and forceries might haue power to enter in." 

 Again : " The muffle or fnout of a wolfe, kept 

 long dried, is a counter-charm againft all witch- 

 craft and forcery; which is the reafon that they 

 ufually fet it upon gates of countrey ferms. The 

 fame force the very {kin is thought to haue which 

 is flaied whole of itfelf, without any flefh, from 

 the nape of the neck. And, in truth, ouer and 

 aboue the properties which I haue reported already 

 of this beaft, of fuch power and vertue it is, that 

 if horfes chance to tread in the tracts of a wolfe, 

 their feet will be immediately benummed and 

 aftonied. Alfo their lard is a remedy for thofe 

 who are empoifoned by drinking quickfiluer." 

 Some parts of the animal he prefcribes to be 

 mixed with Attic honey, as this is " fingular for 

 thofe whofe fight is dim and troubled." Like- 

 wife certain bones are found in wolves " which, if 

 they be hanged about the arme, do cure the 

 collicke." But his credulity was not yet fated. 

 " To come unto leechcraft belonging unto beafts, 

 it is faid that wolves wil not come into any lord- 

 fhip or territory, if one of them be taken, and 

 when the legs are broken, be let bloud with a knife 

 by little and little, fo as the fame may be med 

 about the limits or bounds of the faid field, as he 

 is drawne along, and then the body be buried in 

 the very place where they began firft to dragge 



