A Charm To Drive Away Evil
Take an iron nail, red-rusted by time and rain, and forged by hand in the ancient form (if such can be found); on a dark night, moonless and cloudy, set down this nail upon a smallish flat stone, and with an iron hammer strike it thrice, at each stroke saying this:
Clavus ferreus
Malleus ferreus
Ferrum rufulum
Ferrum nobilis
Score the stone thrice across with the nail’s point, then take the stone away quickly and bury it in the Earth far from your house. The nail should afterwards be carried with you always, as a charm against evil influences and emanations.
Crone’s Book Of Charms & Spells
Valerie Worth
ISBN 1-56718-811-7
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