Show in love charma the love alarm j of sicily are many and curious one very popular and considered very powerful is to put into an eggshell a few drops of the blood of the longing lover the shell is exposed to the sun ann for three days and to tho the dow dew for three nights it is then placed on hot nashes r until who when n the whole is reduced to a fine powder and administered secretly in a cup 0 of f coffee or a glass of wine to the object of affection another charm is for the witch to undress at midnight and tie her clot clothe heik up in a bundle which she places on her head then kneeling Im eeling in the center of her room she pronounces an incantation at the end of which she shakes her head if the bundle falls in front of her it is a good sign should it fall behind her tho the charm will not avail yet another is worked in the following manner pieces of green red and white ribbon are purchased in three different shops tho the name of the persons to be charmed being repeated mentally each time the shopkeeper must be paid with the left hand the ribbon being received in tho the right when all the pieces are bought they are taken to a witch who gets out to find the person to be charmed on finding him or her ber the witch mutters to herself with these ribbons I 1 bind you yon to such a one cue then sho she returns the ribbons to the pure purchaser baser who ties them beneath his or her left knee and wears them at church macmil banfi |