The Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter

In the village church of Comfort
near Pont-Croix, in western Brittany,
is a very good specimen of the now
rare "wheel of fortune." It is made of
wood, with a row of bells on its outer
rim and pivoted between a couple of
rough beams, altogether very primitive
workmanship. By means of a cord attached to a crank the wheels can be
made to revolve and set all the bells
a-jangling. I have often heard that
the peasants believe that it has miraculous power of healing when rung
over the head of a sufferer who has
placed a sou in the box to which the
rope is padlocked. I received remarkable confirmation of this belief, for
while making a photograph a well-to-do sailor's wife and her husband came
into the church and looked round. The
woman asked me if I thought there
could be any truth in this belief, as
her child was very backward in learning to talk. Her nurse, who came from
those parts, had advised her to bring
the baby and ring the bells of Comfort
over his head, when he would be sure
to talk. As she was passing she had
looked in to see if it was worth trying!
London Chronicle.