The Nine Herbs Charm, Nigon Wyrta Galdor, Lay of the Nine Healing Herbs, or Nine Wort Spell (among other names) is an Old English charm recorded in the tenth century CE.
[1] It is part of the Anglo-Saxon medical compilation known as Lacnunga, which survives in the manuscript Harley MS 585 in the British Library.
Robert K. Gordon's translation of the section reads as follows: A snake came crawling, it bit a man.
[3] According to Gordon, the poem is "clearly an old heathen thing which has been subjected to Christian censorship.
"[1] Malcolm Laurence Cameron states that chanting the poem aloud results in a "marvellously incantatory effect".