he bosom, and repeat,

"The even ash leaf in my bosom,
The first I meet shall be my husband."

Immediately after this the future husband will make his appearance.

Another method: After nightfall the sighing maiden may walk through
the garden with a rake in her left hand, and throw hemp seed over her
right shoulder while she keeps repeating,

"Hemp seed I set, hemp seed I sow,
The man that is my true love come after me and mow."

Sure enough, we are assured, the future husband will appear beside the
fair sower with a scythe, ready to cut down the crop when it grows.

We are further assured that a lady would succeed quite as well, were
she, on going to bed, to place her shoes so as to form the letter T,
and say,

"Hoping this night my true love to see,
I place my shoes in the form of a T;"

or were she, on retiring for the night, to write the alphabet on small
pieces of paper, and put them into a basin of water, with the letters
downwards,--in the former case she would in her dreams perceive her
future husband, and in the latter she might expect to find, in the
morning, the first letter of his name turned upwards, and all the
other letters downwards, as she had left them.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

Earl of Derby's Death--A Queen Enchanted--Image of a
young King made for Wicked Purposes--Belgrave on
Charms--Childebert's Device for detecting Witches--A
Pot of Ointment--Witch Burned--Witch
Ointment--Men-Wolves--Component Parts of Witch
Ointment--Church Authorities' Instructions to
Inquisitors--Killing by a Look or Wish--The King of
Sweden and his Witches--Witches' Help in War--Witches
causing a Plague--Cattle Poisoned--Various Charms--How
to make Hair grow Long and Yellow--Holy Vestments--An
Angel's Charm to Pope Leo--Physicians' Faith in
Charms--Illusions--Inescation--Insemination--Method of
discovering if one is Bewitched--Egyptian Laws--Curing
the King's Evil.

Andrews, in his continuation of Henry's _History of Great Britain_,
speaking of Ferdinand, Earl of Derby, says his death was attributed to
witchcraft. No doubt the disease appeared to be peculiar. After his
death a wax image with hair, in colour like that of the earl, was
found in his chamber, which confirmed the suspicions entertained as to
the cause of his demise. Another alleged atrocious crime was that of
the wife of Marshal D'Ancre. She