Gather a quart of warm water from a spring or stream, and pour it into a large bowl, set it within a darkened chamber; by candlelight. Then take a silver knife and write with it's point upon the water's surface the name of that which afflicts you. Next, soak a small lock of lamb's wool first in a sweet scented oil and the second, in some red wine. Carry it to the bowl and drop it into the water saying these words:
The dark be lightened
The harsh be softened
The rank be sweetened
By the power of the knife
And by the power of the water.
Leave the lamb's wool there to soak all night, until sunrise. Then it should be removed, wrung out and set to dry upon a small circle of white velvet cloth. Meanwhile, the contents of the bowl should be emptied out into a hole dug in the Earth, and the hole filled in again. When the lamb's wool is quite dry, it should be sewn up in the velvet and pinned beneath your clothing, to be worn there for a full month, and thereafter kept elsewhere in safety, that its charmed powers may not be diminished through neglect.
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