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Ir any one be anointed with the milk of an ass, all the 
Fleas in the house will gather together upon him. 
Albertus Magnus, ‘Of the Wonders of the World.” 
Fly and Flesh-fly. 
When the splitting wind 
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, 
And flies fled under shade. 
Troitus anp Cressipa, i. 3, §I. 
FLizs are unquiet, and importunate, and malicious, sting- 
ing and worrying. Flies, like bees, if killed in water, 
sometimes revive after an hour. If Flies be burnt, and 
smeared with honey on bald places, they produce hair. 
Hortus Sanitatis, bk, iii, (“De Avibus’’) § 81. 
Wuewn thou wilt drive away Flies from any place that 
there shall none be seen there again, make the image of 
a Fly in the stone of a ring; or in a plate of brass or 
copper, or of tin, make the image of a Fly, of a spider, 
or of a.serpent, the second face of Pisces then ascending, 
And whiles you are making a graving of them, say: This 
is the image which doth clean rid all Flies for ever. Then 
bury the same in the midst of the house, or hang it in 
any place of the house, (but if thou hast four such plates, 
and bury them or hang them in four corners of the house, 
or hide them within the walls, that nobody take them away, 
it were far better). But this laying of them must be when 
the first face of Taurus doth ascend. And so no Fly 
will come in there, nor tarry there. Ptolomy saith that he 
saw the trial hereof in the house of King Adebarus ; who 
was very wise, and was marvellous expert in natural magic, 
in whose palace or place, there was neither Fly nor any 
other hurting worm. And that I might search it out (saith 
he), I brought in thither live Flies, which presently died. 
Lupton, “A Thousand Notable Things,” bk. ii. § 21. 
In the common place where the Censors of Venice sit, 
there never enter any Flies. And in the flesh shambles of 
Toledo in Spain, is not seen but one Fly in all the whole 
year. And in Westminster Hall, in the timber-work, there 
