Notes And Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850
Excerpt from the book: “I think that, if you are anxious to accumulate as much as you can of the Folk Lore of England, no set of men are more likely to help you than the clergy, particularly the younger part, viz., curates, o whom the stories they hear among their flock have the gloss of novelty. I send you a specimen of old charms, that have come under my notice in the south-eastern counties. No. 1. is a dialogue between the Parson and the old Dame:-- "_P._ Well, Dame Grey, I hear you have a charm to cure the toothache. Come, just let me hear it; I should be so much pleased to know it”.
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