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MISS BUSK's foot-note ("N. & Q.," ante, p. 263) to her tale of the witch of Canemorto who persuaded her husband to attend the Noce di Benevento, where his pleasure was marred by the absence of salt (which was, however, procured), reminds me of Grimm's note on the popular superstitions relative to salt. Salt-springs we know, from Tacitus and others, were highly valued by the early Teutonic tribes: "Suppose now that the preparation of salt was managed by women, by priestesses, that the salt-kettle, salt-pan, was under their care and supervision, there would be a connexion established between salt-boiling and the later vulgar opinion about witchcraft: the witches gather, say on certain high days, in the holy wood, on the mountain, where the salt-springs bubble, carrying with them cooking vessels, ladles, and forks, and at night their salt-pan is aglow......As Christians equally recognized salt as a good and needful thing, it is conceivable how they might now, inverting the matter, deny the use of wholesome salt at witches' meetings, and come to look upon it as a safeguard against every kind of sorcery. For it is precisely salt that is lacking in the witches' kitchen and at devils' feasts, the Church having now taken upon herself the hallowing and dedication of salt."-Stallybrass's Teutonic Mythology, vol. iii. pp. 1047, 1049. The original passage in Grimm's Deutsche Mytho in Misscredit zu bringen, der kid, ki liessen. Die Germanen glauben haltiges Wasser ist, liegs dem 11 Gebete des Menschen werden you upon besser vernommen." I have not quoted the whole note, sacred thing in Britain. When I need not cite instances of the use of whé, a its mother's house, it is in Leicesterbure, b "It is not this salt I wish to burn, That he may neither rest nor happy be Henderson, Folk-lore of the Northern The charm cited belongs, Mr. Henderson ways, to |