Metrical Charm 3: Against a Dwarf

You must take seven little wafers, such as one uses in worship, and write these names on each wafer: Maximianus, Malchus, Johannes, Martinianus, Dionysius, Constantinus, Serapion. Then afterwards you must sing the charm which is given below, first into the left ear, then into the right ear, then over the man's head. And then let a maiden go to him and hang it upon his neck, and do this for three days; he will straightway be better.

"Here came a spider creature stalking in; He had his dress in his hand. He said that thou wert his steed. He puts his bonds on thy neck. They began to sail from the land. As soon as they left the land, They began then to cool.

Then came the beast's sister stalking in, Then she made an end and swore these oaths: That this should never hurt the sick, Nor him who could acquire this charm, Nor him who could chant this charm. Amen, fiat."