GUARDING AGAINST EVIL.
Japanese magic lore reveals some curious remedies against all sorts of evils. Here are a few: . ' . "", ' . The art of making a husband • and wife live together in harmony. Take the legbones of a pigeon which has cooed on the fifth day of the fifth month, put them in vermillion bags, and hang them, one on the man's loft arm, and the other on the woman's right, Or let them be carried constantly in the ' sleeve. '.' To ; cure a wife of envy" and jealousy. Feed her on boiled nightingales. Undutiful conduct in a child or wife may be cured by plastering the kitchen furniture with a mixture of earth and dog's liver. To make a woman reveal hex fickleness. Take-earth 'from the ; footprint of a horse that has gone in an easterly direction, and hide it 'in her clothing. To- become beautiful in a week. Crush a wild gourd and dissolve in water in which red ochre has been mixed. Apply •very night, agd wash it off nest morning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18494, 3 September 1923, Page 12
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