Middle High German · AI translation
Contra uberbein
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
9r.13–9r.20
contra überbein·
Against überbein.
lignum de saepe vel aliunde sumptum pone super überbein·
Place a piece of wood taken from a hedge or from elsewhere on the überbein,
faciens crucem et ter dicens pater noster· additis his teutonicis verbis.
making a cross and saying the Our Father three times, with these German words added:
ichbeswerendich überbein bî deme holze dâ der almehtige
I conjure you, überbein, by the wood on which almighty
got anersterben wolde durch mennischen
God was willing to die for mankind's
sünde. daz dû swînest· unde inal swachest.
sin, that you shrink and wholly weaken.
si hoc tribus diebus diluculo feceris. überbein evanescere citius
If you do this for three days at daybreak, the überbein vanishing quickly
videbis
you will see.
Translator's note. überbein, a hard swelling over a bone or joint (a ganglion or bony growth; in horses a splint), is kept in italics.
The whole original: ReM 2.1 at Zenodo (open M052).