id her sister, Mrs. Summers, having a bad leg, had been advised
to let the prisoner see it. Bond, after looking at the limb, declared
that it was not an affliction by God. She went away, and afterwards
returned with some cards. These she arranged, and, after looking at
them, said her sister was so ill-wished that her face would be drawn
to her toes, and that she would die at the age of thirty-seven. Mrs.
Summers asked the prisoner if she could do her any good. Bond replied,
"Yes; if you come at once under my demand; my usual price is 25s., but
I'll do it for L1." Deponent lent her sister a sovereign to give to
the woman. Bond turned up a bottle, and said to witness, "There is
one dark woman, and a tall woman, doing your sister injury; the circle
was not laid intentionally for her, but for her husband." The prisoner
was convicted and punished. She had formerly been imprisoned for a
similar offence.

In 1878, at a meeting of the guardians of the Coventry Union, an
inmate named Arnold, _alias_ "Old Zadkiel," a professor of astrology,
was the subject of inquiry. A letter had been addressed to him by a
lady at Dorchester, anxious to learn "what planet she was born under,
and the position of her future husband." She forwarded a number of
postage stamps. There was another letter from a lady at Leamington,
asking Arnold to keep an appointment with her, to "read her destiny."
The astrologer formerly lived in Coventry, and carried on an extensive
trade until he was sent to Warwick gaol, which he left for the
workhouse. He was cautioned by the Board. "Old Zadkiel," taking
offence, left the workhouse, saying he "should resume his astrology"
and the "ruling of the planets."

Not long ago a well-to-do farmer near Ilchester, in Somerset, had the
misfortune to have several of his cattle taken away by disease. A
veterinary surgeon who was consulted, thought the remainder of the
herd were in a fair way of recovery; the farmer, however, insisted
that he and his cows had been "overlooked," and immediately sought out
a "wise woman" residing in an adjacent town. Acting upon the advice of
the old hag, the farmer returned home, and encircled with a faggot the
last bullock that died, ignited the pile, and burnt the carcase, an
incantation being pronounced over the burning beast. The remainder of
the herd became well, and their recovery was attributed by the farmer
and his simple-minded neighbours, not to the skill of the veterinary
surgeon, b