Romanian charm for snake bite

I already talked about hags who used to be called on in various cases to provide paranormal aid. The following article by At. M. Marienescu is from an old Romanian newspaper, Family, dated 1870. 

"The hag lights frankincense and fumigates the wound. Then, holding a brass knife backwards in her right hand, she mimics stabbing something behind her while speaking the charm.

Many charms are used in conjunction with various 'medicines,' that are hardly shared with others, otherwise the hag risks losing her profession, thus her income. Elena Andreiu from Roman Oravița, who dictated the following to me, cures in this manner:

1. You take a clean, white stone (pebble) and place it inside the fire until it becomes red-hot. You then place it inside a clay bowl and pour fresh, clean water over it. You steam the wound with the resulting steam.

2. You place hot coals inside a pot, alongside seven corn kernels and seven bits of frankincense. You use it to fumigate the wound.

3. You melt butter made of cow's milk and yellow beeswax, each added in seven individual lumps, alongside oil, until it turns into a paste. You place the paste on a piece of hemp cloth and the resulting bandage onto the wound.

The following spoken formula (that rhymes in Romanian) accompanies this working:

'May cure come

From Saint Mary

So from her

And by my hand

You unclean and disfigured 

You sick in the heart and slashed,

From running amok biters,

Snake from rocky creek,

What have you with flowing and chasing?

Biting and swelling,

Enlarging and poking,

George, the innocent?!

You're not aware, [you] filth, 

Poisonous [one],

That I am the giver of cure,

And Saint Mary the healer?

I went and I ran,

I have cut you with the knife,

I have smoked you with the incense

I have spoken [curing formulae] with my tongue,

With the foot of two children,

Rush [away from the] twins*,

And in the air be gone.

Go [you] unclean [smitten by the] arrow,

With poisonous bite,

From feet and hands,

From marrow and veins,

From blood, from flesh,

From skin, from wounds,

Go! Don't spread,

Sting and soil,

For here is not a place to bite,

[To] roast or [cause] death,

To harm or sting,

But is the place of an altar

And of great knives,

Of the name of God,

And of his holy Son,

For I have been baptized,

[And] rejected Satan,

And you may howl and leap

Run away and be gone.

As dew from the sun,

As foam from the sea,

May George become clean,

As purified gold,

As the star in the sky,

As dew on flowers,

Like [on] the day he was baptized 

And thundered (cried - during baptism) inside the church!

Mary in heavens, [the] healer,

Elena on Earth, [the] mender,

The hags's payment to be known!'

*The hag (Elena) says those women born as a twin have great powers to perform charms, magical formulae and healing."

Notice how even this folk working from around here contains elements found in more elaborate and complex magical systems, such as grimoires, as is the case in western Europe. Besides using the knife to threaten, even harm the entity she considers to have caused the snake bite and the harm that follows, she also calls on and identifies with holiness, in this case through Saint Mary - Mother of Jesus, who is often called a saint here although considered to be far above saints.

PS: in case any wannabe scholar and/or solomoniac wants to use the contents of this article you must also mention me and this blog as a source, alongside the author and publication, because fuck you!