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the bleeding stops. No words of any kind are said over it. (I asked about this most particularly.) The stone was bought for her father, when he was a lad, to stop his nose bleeding, by his grandfather, and cost three guineas. She mentioned several cases by name where she had found it effectual, the last being less than ten years ago. But she did not tell me the name in this case, or perhaps I could have tested her story. The man after- wards wore a necklace of large beads to stop the bleeding, but she does not know if it was any use, as he left the neighbourhood. She herself wore the bead once for six months continuously to stop her nose bleeding, and it was very effectual. She is a perfectly respectable person.
A. LUKVN WlLLIAMS.2
Guilden Morden, Royston.
Devoti.
The ash faggot is still burnt in some farmhouses " to burn up all the bogeys " and other evil things. " They flies away up the chimney I've heard tell." An ash-faggot was brought into the house where I was staying, by the gardener, on Christmas Eve, 191 1, and we were told that we must burn it that night and drink whilst it burnt, till it fell to pieces. This Yule faggot was wired. We were not told anything about bogeys, only that we must drink for luck. (Bampton.) "
If the clock stops no news will come to the house. (Tiverton.)
A man at Bampton told me the following : —
" I never didn't transplant pars'ley. That's the worst thing you can go for to do. You sow some on a bed and lets it grow there, and that's all right, but if you digs it up and goes for to transplant it someone in the family's sure for to die."
Asparagus also must not be transplanted. Even with a growing moon it would not be lucky, "and some says as someone in the family'll go and die ; but I says as they won't die anyhows 'afore their time do be come ; but I never go for to transplant 'sparagus nor pars'ley for sure."
D. H. MouTRAY Read.
^Communicated by Dr. J. G. Frazer. ^ Cf. vol. xx., p. 4S9.
