{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/ali/ali051.htm","path":"neu/celt/ali/ali051.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/ali/ali051.htm","text":"Drimial Agus Thorial\n(A Wicked Spell)\nWhen a girl wishes to gain the love of a man, and to make him marry her, the dreadful spell is used called Drimial Agus Thorial. At dead of night, she and an accomplice go to a churchyard, exhume a newly-buried corpse, and take a strip of the skin from the head to the heel. This is wound round the girl as a belt with a solemn invocation to the devil for his help.\nAfter she has worn it for a day and a night she watches her opportunity and ties it round the sleeping man whose love she desires; during which process the name of God must not he mentioned.\nWhen he awakes the man is bound by the spell; and is forced to marry the cruel and evil harpy. It is said the children of such marriages bear a black mark round the wrist, and are known and shunned by the people, who call them \"sons of the devil.\"","title":"Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms, and Superstitions of Ireland: Drimial Agus Thorial","type":"page"}