a charm consisting of some words of occult power, generally attended with some ceremony.—In order to explain it, we will produce a few examples. On St Agnes's night, 21st of January, take a row of pins, and pull out every one, one after another, saying a Pater-noster on sticking a pin in your sleeve, and you will dream of him or her you shall marry.

Another method to see a future spouse in a dream. The party inquiring must lie in a different county from that in which he commonly resides, and on going to bed must knit the left garter about the right-legged stocking, letting the other garter and stocking alone; and as he rehearses the following verses, at every comma knit a knot:

This knot I knit, To know the thing I know not yet; That I may see The man (woman) that shall my husband (wife) be; How he goes, and what he wears, And what he does all days and years.

Accordingly, in a dream, he will appear with the insignia of his trade or profession.

Another, performed by charming the moon, thus: At the first appearance of the new moon, immediately after the new year's day, (though some say any other new moon is as good), go out in the evening, and stand over the spars of a gate or stile, and, looking on the moon, repeat the following lines:

All hail to the moon! all hail to thee! I prithee, good moon, reveal to me This night who my husband (wife) must be. Immediately after you must go to bed, when you will dream of the person destined for your future husband or wife.