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to a Man^ the other half to a Woman, this 

 Charm will keep them from ever lying abfent 

 one from the other. 



They have Books full of the like abfurdi- 

 ties, and Cabaliftick complication of Figures \ 

 ^s for Example, if jou write thcfe following 

 Numbers, 28, 35, 2, 7.-^5, 3, 32, 31^34, 

 29, 8, T,— 4, 5, 30, 33. in the Iquares of a 

 fquare Figure, and your Enemies Name un- 

 der it, and wear it always about you, your 

 Enemy (hall never be able to hurt you. 



So if you write the following Figures in the 

 like manner upon the left Hand, 2, 9, 2, 7— 

 3, 6^ 5,-^8, 3, 8, 1^4, 5, 4, 7— with Tur- 

 merick, and walh the fame off with fair Wa- 

 ter of Ganges^ and drink it, it will cure all 

 planner of Venomous Bitings. 



Multitudes of fuch like ridiculous Fancier 

 they have ; all which they feem to have bor- 

 rowed from the Cabala of the Saracens^ which 

 is full of fuch like. 



1 lately heard a Bramim fay, that if fome 

 of the pieces or knots of the Cloath) in which 

 a Woman hath been burned with her Hus- 

 band) be faved, and made up in the form of 

 a Wick, and fitted for a Lamp, and lighted, 

 and fetinadead Womans Skull, that it would 

 make the dead Party appear- This he faid he 

 had done, but I did not believe him. 



When they have any mad Men among them, 

 they take them and put them into a clofe 

 Room, juft big enough to hold them, and al- 

 moft Smoke them to Death with Musk and 

 cold Smells, which foon brings their Brains 

 into their right temperature, and fo reco^ 

 yerthem, drc. 



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