{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/eng/prwe/prwe258.htm","path":"neu/eng/prwe/prwe258.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/prwe/prwe258.htm","text":"TO CHARM A SNAKE.\nWHEN an adder or snake is seen a circle is to be rapidly drawn around it, and the sign of the cross made within it, while the two first verses of the 68th Psalm are repeated :-- \"Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered; let them also that hate him flee before him.\n\"As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.\"\nWhen a child, I well remember being shown a snake, not yet dead, within a circle of this kind; the gardener who drew my attention to the reptile informing me that he had charmed it in the manner related.","title":"Popular Romances of the West of England: Popular Superstitions: To Charm a Snake","type":"page"}