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Here are a few of those healing charms:

Cato De Agricultura 160 for a dislocated limb

HUAT HAUT HAUT ISTASIS TARSIS ARDANNABOU DANNAUSTRA

Or else say:

HUAT, HAUAT, HAUT, ISTA PISTA SISTA DAMNABO DAMNA USTRA

I pray he may be healthy, I pray his troubles cease; I will harm what harms you.


Pliny Natural History 27.131

Reseda, morbis resida, scisne scisne quis hic pullus egerit radices; nec caput nec pedes habeant.

Do not come, Illness, remain behind, for you do not know, do not know, why this chicken will be in need of roots, neither head nor feet does he have.


Varro Rerum Rusticarum de Agricultura 1.2.27

EGO TUI MENINI; MEDERE MEIS PEDIBUS.
TERRA PESTEM TENETO. SALUS HIC MANETO IN MEIS PEDIBUS

If your feet hurt: "I think of you; heal my feet. May Terra restrain plague. May health remain in my feet." Nine times must you recite this (charm), touching the earth, and then spit on the ground. This must be recited in due seriousness.


Marcellus Empiricus De Medicamentis 15.11 for fever and sore throat:

EXI, [SI] HODIE NATA, SI ANTE NATA
SI HODIE CREATA, SI ANTE CREATA;
HANC PESTEM, HANC PESTILENTIAM,
HUNC DOLOREM, HUNC TUMOREM, HUNC RUBOREM,
HAS TOLES, HAS TOSILLAS,
HUNC PANUM, HAS PANUCLAS,
HANC STRUMAM, HANC STRUMELLAM,
HAC RELIGIONE EVOCO DUCO ExCANTO
DE ISTIS MEMBRIS MEDULLIS.

Come forth! Today Daughter, the One before the Daughter
Today created, before she was created,
This sickness, this disease,
This pain, this swelling, this redness,
This goiter, these tonsils,
This tumor, these little tumors,
This swelling gland, these swelling little glands,
With pious rite I call out, I summon; I entice with songs that You come forth
From these limbs, from these bones, (from this body).