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striking twelve, pour in your lead or pewter melted and boiling hot: as soon as it is cold and settled take it out, and you will find among it the emblems of his trade. A ship is a sailor, tools a workman, trees a gardener, a ring a silversmith or jeweller, a book a parson or learned man, and so on.
THE NINE KEYS.
Get nine small keys, they must all be your own, by bogging or purchase, (borrowing will not do, nor must you tell what you want them for:) plait a three-plaited band of your own hair, and tie them together, fastening the ends with nine knots; fasten them with one of your garters to your left wrist on going to bed, and bind the other garter round your head ; then say,
To try your favour I’ve done this;
You are the ruler of the keys.
Favour me then, if you please
Let me then your influence prove,
And see my dear and wedded love.
This must be done on the Eve of St. Peter’s, and is an old charm used by the maidens of Rome in aucicn times, who put great faith in it.
A CURIOUS SPELL.
If a maid wishes to see her lover, let her take the following method. Prick the third or wedding finge of your left hand, with a sharp needle, (beware of pin,) and with the blood write your own and lover name on a piece of clean writing paper, in as small compass as you can; and encircle it with three round rings of the same crimson stream, fold it up, and exactly at the ninth hour of the evening bury it with your own hand in the earth, and tell no one. Your lover will hasten to you as soon as possible, and he will not be able to rest until he sees you, and if you have quarrelled, to make it un, A young man may also try
