Clafs IIT. YE PARR. 23 
This wondrous egg feems to be nothing more than 
a bead of glafs, ufed by the Druids as a charm to 
impofe on the vulgar, whom they taught to believe, 
that the poffeffor would be fortunate in all his at- 
tempts, and that it would gain him the favor of the 
ereat. 
Our modern Druideffes give much the fame account 
of the ovidm anguinum, Glain Neidr, as the Welch call 
it, or the Adder:Gem, as the Roman philofopher does, 
but feem not to have fo exalted an opinion of its pow- 
ers, ufing it only to affift children in cutting their 
teeth, or to cure the chin-cough, or to ie away 
an ague. 
We have fome of thefe beads in our cabinet : 
they are made of glafs, and of a very rich blue color;. 
fome are plain, others ftreaked : we fay nothing of. 
the figure, as the annexed plate will convey a ftronger 
idea of it than words. 
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