Feb 3
In old practices, women used to enchant their man by throwing into the fire the items listed in this incantation, then placing the ashes left from the fire under the bed in which they slept with their partner:
“Twigs from the fence,
With hair from a rabid dog,
With soil from beneath the bed,
Soil taken from a grave,
Sprinkled into the bedding,
So that he may rise deaf and mute.”
“Deaf and mute” were terms used symbolically, meaning that the man would no longer listen to or speak with other women, remaining faithful and bound only to his partner.
