{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe251.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe251.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe251.htm","text":"THE CLUB-MOSS.\n(LYCOPODIUM INUNDATUM.)\nIF this moss is properly gathered, it is \"good against all diseases of the eyes.\"\nThe gathering is regarded as a mystery not to be lightly told; and if any man ventures to write the secret, the virtues of the moss avail him no more. I hope, therefore, my readers will fully value the sacrifice I make in giving them the formula by which they may be guided.\n \u00a0On the third day of the moon --m when the\n thin crescent is seen for the first time--show it the knife with which\n the moss is to be cut, and repeat,--\u00a0\n \n \"As Christ heal'd the issue of blood,\n Do thou cut, what thou cuttest, for good !\"\nAt sun-down, having carefully washed the hands, the club-moss is to be cut kneeling. It is to be carefully wrapped in a white cloth, and subsequently boiled in some water taken from the spring nearest to its place of growth. This may be used as a fomentation. Or the club-moss may be made into an ointment, with butter made from the milk of a new cow.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Popular Superstitions: The Club Moss","type":"page"}