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Show MOROCCANS USE LOVE CHARMS. Queer Means Employed by Women to Gain Affection. Mrs. ManselPluydcll writes of tho curious charms used by tho women of Morocco: "Moorish women resort much to charms to gain lovers or to keop their affections when gained. There Is one charm which la seldom known to fall. It cotmtUs of b1i redding red-ding ti small pleco of an imdeigaimunt which the man has worn and, after cortaln Incantations havo been said over It, of tolling tho pnrllclcs Into tho shape of ti small ball. This Is embedded em-bedded In a larger ball of clay and, after aft-er being slightly dampened, It Is kept In u pot over tho embers of llo charcoal. char-coal. I havo been assured that as soon as tho heat penetrates tho clay tho man, w hoover ho may be, will lay aslilo whatever work ho Is doing at the tlmo and ily to the arms of the woman who Invokes tho charms. As long us tho ball Is kept wjirm so long will the heat of lovo burn In tho heart of the lover for that woman. Another spell much retorted to Is cast by cutting off tho tips of a donkey's ears, rooking them and mixing them In tho man's food. Ho then becomes ns foolish as a donkey with lovo for the charmer who has provided his unsavory lepast." |