Charms 43
person who is talking about you bite his tongue.
Repeat the Lord’s Prayer backwards, and you will see the Devil.
If you wish to get rid of the rats which make the walls of your house their home, write them a note couched in the politest terms you are master of, requesting them to go to a neighbor, and they will do as you desire. Be careful, of course, to tell the rats which neighbor you wish them to go to.
Another method, equally good, is to catch a rat, carry it to a neighbor’s, and let it loose there. All the other rats at your house will follow it.
Again, if you will catch a rat and let it loose with a bell tied to its neck, all the rats will leave.
If you get a fishbone in your throat, pull your big toe, and the fishbone will immediately come out.
In the old days when feruling was common in the schools, the boys had a belief that if they spit in their hand before the teacher struck it, the ferule would break in two at the first blow.
Once in a while there is a rare person who is endowed by nature with the power to discover where it is best to
