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acquiring wealth, or goes to Saint Valentine against the falling sickness original: "morbum caducum", or drives away the same by uttering or carrying these verses:
Caspar brings myrrh, Melchior incense, Balthasar gold.
He who will carry these three names of Kings with him.
Likewise, that toothaches are mitigated if one touches one’s teeth while the sacred service is performed, uttering these words: "You shall not break any bone of it." Carrying a cross through the fields in spring against storms, using amulets original: "amuleta" hung around the neck upon which is inscribed the Apostolic Creed, or the beginning of the Gospel of John, or a portion of some Psalm against enchantments and the specters of demons, and finally, using exorcisms and conjurations which cannot be employed without some superstitious ceremony...