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there is a child, who perhaps is necessary on the principle of sympathetic magic ; and some drink is shared between man and wife.^ The passing of some person between the pair is perhaps meant to break the invisible binding spell. Reginald Scot says : " It is thought verie ill lucke of some, that a child, or any other living creature, should passe betweene two friends as they walk togither ; for they say it portendeth a division of friendship.""
(2) The second charm '^ runs: "To set free a married pair in another fashion, easily and without trouble. Find three wild olive trees, which have been grafted several days, when their grafting has not taken, let them be all three on a row. Take their bindings and the earth of them, without speaking, on Saturday in the evening. Take them and put them in a boiler, and put water in it ; boil them to- gether, and let the man and wife wash together with that water, without speaking, and let them come together without speaking ; and let that water also be brought from the spring without speaking." Here the sympathetic magic is clearer still.
(3) " At midnight let a man who is not ' bound ' come together with his wife, without speaking; then wearing the same garments he had on, let him arise and go to the house of him who is ' bound.' Let him knock without speaking.
' Probably holy water washed over the charm. See below, p. 171.
- Discovery, p. 204,
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