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which the priest had blessed aud, being carried by the children, were 

 considered as a preventive of intestinal worms in children. They are 

 called Olifants, and are sold at a comparatively high price. The wife 

 of the letter-carrier at Cornay hired hers out at vingt cinq centimes — 5 

 cents a seance or day. Among other things, they will cure broken ribs. 



There were three private collections of amulets, charms, aud talis- 

 mans displayed at the exposition, aud one of divinities. The former are 

 the property of, and were collected by, M. Joseph Belucci of Perugia, 

 Adrien de Mortillet of Paris, Lionel Bonnemere of Belgium ; and the 

 latter by Clement Bubbens. 



They numbered from four hundred or five hundred pieces in a col- 

 lection down to one huudred. They were arranged in proper order and 

 with the classification and catalogue of their respective powers and 

 localities. 



