{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe245.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe245.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe245.htm","text":"THE ZENNOR CHARMERS.\nBOTH men and women in this parish possessed this power to a remarkable degree. They could stop blood, however freely it might be flowing. \"Even should a pig be sticked in tie very place, if a charmer was present, and thought of his charm at the time, the pig would not bleed.\" This statement, made by a Zennor man, shows a tolerably large amount of faith in their power. The charmers are very cautious about communicating their charms. A man would not on any account tell his charm to a woman, or a woman communicate hers to a man. People will travel many miles to have themselves or their children charmed for \"wildfires\" (erysipelas), ringworms, pains in the limbs or teeth, \"kennels\" on the eyes (ulcerations). A correspondent writes me :-- \"Near this lives a lady charmer, on whom I called. I found her to be a really clever, sensible woman. She was reading a learned treatise on ancient history. She told me there were but three charmers left in the west,--one at New Mill, one in Morva, and herself.\" Their charm for stopping blood is but another version of one given on another page.\n\"Christ was born in Bethlehem;\n Baptized in the river Jordan.\n The river stood,-- \n So shall thy blood,\nMary Jane Polgrain [or whatever the person may be called],\nIn the name of the Father,\" &c.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Popular Superstitions: The Zennor Charmers","type":"page"}