va te
suverena apre o pani, pa lenia, pa doeyav. Te asar i paneskri mullos kon
jivena adre o pani rakkerena keti puveskri chovihanis. Si manush dikela
pano panna, te partan te diklo apre o pani te lela lis, adovo sikela
astis lel a pireni, o yuzhior te o kushtidir o partan se, o kushtidir i
rakli. Si latchesa ran apre o pani, dovo sikela sastis kur tiro wafedo
geero. Chokka or curro apre o pani penela tu tevel sig atch kamelo sar
tiri pireni, te pireno. Te safrani ruzhia pa pani dukerena sonaki, te
pauni, rupp, te loli, kammaben."

"Kana latchesa klisin, dovo se buti bacht. Vonka haderesa lis apre, pen
o manusheskro te rakleskri nav, te yan wena kamlo o tute. Butidir bacht
si lullo dori te tav. Rikker lis, sikela kushti kamaben. Man nasher lis
avri tiro zi miri chavi."

"Nanei, bibi, kekker."

WITCHCRAFT. {327}

"My dear aunt, I wish very much to be a witch. I would like to enchant
people and to know secret things. You can teach me all that."

"Oh, my darling! if you come to be a witch, and the Gentiles know it, you
will have much trouble. All the children will cry aloud, and make a
noise and throw stones at you when they see you, and perhaps the grown-up
people will kill you. But it is nice to know secret things; pleasant for
a poor old humble woman whom all the world spits upon to know how to do
them evil and pay them for their cruelty. And I _will_ teach you
something of witchcraft. Listen! When thou wilt tell a fortune, put all
thy heart into finding out what kind of a man or woman thou hast to deal
with. Look [keenly], fix thy glance sharply, especially if it be a girl.
When she is half-frightened, she will tell you much without knowing it.
When thou shalt have often done this thou wilt be able to twist many a
silly girl like twine around thy fingers. Soon thy eyes will look like a
snake's, and when thou art angry thou wilt look like the old devil. Half
the business, my dear, is to know how to please and flatter and allure
people. When a girl has anything unusual in her face, you must tell her
that it signifies extraordinary luck. If she have red or yellow hair,
tell her that is a true sign that she will have much gold. When her
eyebrows meet, that shows she will be united to many rich gentlemen.
Tell her always, when you see a mole on her cheek or her forehead or
anything, that is a sign she will become a great lady. Never mind where
it is, on her body,--tell her always that a mol