Note 82 — XLIII. WITCHCRAFT.—SORCERY.—CHARMS.—SPELLS.—INCANTATIONS.—MAGIC.
Reading edition
Brand quotes Camden as relating of the Irish that, “if a child is at any time out of order, they sprinkle it with the stalest urine they can get.”—(Brand, “Popular Antiquities,” article “Christening Customs,” London, 1849, vol. ii. p. 86.)