tsun (Witesone) Day. If it is Whit
Sunday, why do we say Easter Day, and not Easter Sunday? Why do we say
Whitsun-Tide? Why does our Prayer Book say Monday and Tuesday in
Whitsun-week (just as before, Monday and Tuesday in Easter-week)? And
why do the lower classes, whose "vulgarisms" are, in nine cases out of
ten, more correct than our refinements, still talk about Whitsun Monday
and Whitsun Tuesday, where the more polite say, Whit Monday and Tuesday?

Query II. As I am upon etymologies, let me ask, may not the word _Mass_,
used for the Lord's Supper--which Baronius derives from the Hebrew
_missach_, an oblation, and which is commonly derived from the "missa
missorum"--be nothing more nor less than _mess_ (_mes_, old French), the
meal, the repast, the supper? We have it still lingering in the phrase,
"an officers' mess;" i.e. a meal taken in common at the same table; and
so, "to mess together," "messmate," and so on. Compare the Moeso-Gothic
_mats_, food: and _maz_, which Bosworth says (_A.-S. Dic._ sub voc.
_Mete_) is used for bread, food, in Otfrid's poetical paraphrase of the
Gospels, in Alemannic or High German, published by Graff, Konigsberg,
1831.

H.T.G.

Clapton.

[Footnote 1: The places in the New Testament, where Divine
Wisdom and Knowledge are referred to the outpouring of God's
Spirit, are numberless. Cf. Acts, vi. 3., 1 Cor. xii. 8., Eph.
i. 8, 9., Col. i. 9., &c. &c.]

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FOLK LORE.

_Sympathetic Cures._--Possibly the following excerpt may enable some of
your readers and Folklore collectors to testify to the yet lingering
existence, in localities still unvisited by the "iron horse," of a
superstition similar to the one referred to below. I transcribe it from
a curious, though not very rare volume in duodecimo, entitled _Choice
and Experimental Receipts in Physick and Chirurgery, as also Cordial and
Distilled Waters and Spirits, Perfumes, and other Curiosities_.
Collected by the Honourable and truly learned Sir Kenelm Digby, Kt.,
Chancellour to Her Majesty the Queen Mother. London: Printed for H.
Brome, at the Star in Little Britain, 1668.

"_A Sympathetic Cure for the Tooth-ach._--With an iron nail
raise and cut the gum from about the teeth till it bleed, and
that some of the blood stick upon the nail, then drive it into a
wooden beam up to the head; after this is done you never shall
have the toothach in all your life."