Advice if Somebody is bewitched
This spell comes from a black book from Fron in the Gudbrandsdalen valley. The book is incomplete and very worn, and so far hasn't been dated (my guess is mid-19th century). It is presereved in the collections of Molkte Moe in Norsk folkeminnesamling (Norwegian Folklore Collection) at the University of Oslo.
Here's an English direct translation for you. I have left the lack of punctuation and the inconsistent capitalization from the Norwegian original intact. Some explanatory notes are included.
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Advice if Somebody is bewitched [1] Then You shall take the Ill's piss which is recently let into a jug or Bottle, in the same bottle You put 9 unused sewing needles and steel pins as many as You desire 21 or 24 or 51 [2] all of a different size and then you put a cork in the Bottle and bind over a bladder afterwards You put it away in a secret place on a Thursday night [3] Put a Pot on the Fire with Water in it and let it Boil and then You tie a ribbon around the Neck of the Bottle with a loop on which you put a Stick through and put over the Pot so that the Bottle hangs in the middle of the Water and does not touch any side or the bottom but hangs in the middle of the pot in the Water then let the Water with the Bottle in it boil so hard it can but have everything well closed [4] and in complete silence then comes the one who the evil has done [5] and moans terribly and begs you to take the Pot off the Fire because his body boils as hard as that which is in the Pot but you must not take the Pot off the Fire before he has told you advice the Ill Because he can not make the Ill sane but You or somebody else can do it then take the Pot off the Fire and he will immediately be relieved and goes away.
Do not neglect now to use the cures that he told you this you shall do in the Evening late or in the morning early while it is rather quiet and you shall be all by yourself it is probatum [6].
[1] The Norwegian word here is forgjort, which, if we're dealing with a person (or an animal), means "having had ones mental and/or physical capacities damaged, twisted, or ruined through magic", and if we're dealing with an object (like a tool or a weapon), it means "ruined for its normal purpose through magic".
This word is found in the common expression: "Det var som forgjort!" which is used in situations when something is not working as it normally works or as it is expected to work (like when the newly serviced car won't start or the brand new umbrella won't open) or when you get all fumbly while doing something that you normally wouldn't get fumbly with (especially if it repeats itself, like when breaking several matches one after the other while trying to light them), for instance. It means "That's like bewitched!", but I get the impression that most people don't know this and use it more as exclamatory noise in the non-literal sense of expressions like "What the fuck...?" or "I'll be damned!" and the like.
In a non-magic sense this archaic verb in present tense (which originally meant "forfeit") can mean (approximately) to destroy, ruin, deprave, commit suicide (depending on the context), but in Norwegian it is rarely (if ever?) used in these senses today, whereas the Swedes still use it in the meaning to destroy or ruin.
[2] I am not sure why the exact number of pins - and whether it's odd or even - doesn't seem to matter (and, none of the numbers have any significance in the tradition that I am aware of, except maybe 21 which is 3x7 - seven being a powerful number in Christian tradition). Normally it would be a very specific odd number, so that is what I would choose in this case. However, finding such a high number of different sized pins might give the modern-day practitioner some difficulties...
[3] Thursday has been kept as a holy day sacred to the god Tor many places in Scandinavia up until very recently, and is the traditional day for working magic.
[4] By this is meant doors and windows.
[6] From Latin "probatum est" - it is proved. Formulaic phrase found in old medical prescriptions, and in the "black books".
