Metrical Charm 7: For the Water-Elf Disease

If a person has the water-elf disease, his finger nails will be livid and his eyes tearful and he will look downwards. Do this for him by way of medical treatment: [take] carline, hassock, the netherward part of iris, yew-berry, lupine, elecampane, a head of marshmallow, water-mint, dill, lily, betony, pennyroyal, horehound, dock, elder-wood, earth-gall, wormwood, strawberry leaves, comfrey; steep them in ale, add holy water, sing this charm over them three times:—

"Round the wounds I have wreathed the best of healing amulets,

That the wounds may neither burn nor burst,

Nor grow worse nor putrefy,

Nor throb, nor be filthy wounds,

Nor cut in deeply; but let him keep the sacred water for himself,

Then it will pain you no more than it pains the land by the sea."

Sing this many times: "May Earth remove you with all her might and main." This charm may be sung on the wound.