charm/curse

'For the bite of a sick dog or a serpent write these words round the bottom pf a vessel made of sycamore, and take clean water and delete that writing, and give [the water] to the bitten person to drink before he goeth to sleep.

+ zable + leo + fortis + decim + cephans + '

The Encyclopedia of Ephemera, Maurice Rickards, The British Library, 2000.