If you are troubled by nightmares, cut an onion on a flat counter and release it so that the two halves roll apart. Keep whichever side rolls with its cut surface more upright. Pull your bed away from the wall and walk sunwise around it, pressing the juice of the onion to its four corners. Stand behind the headboard. With the onion, inscribe upright on the air above your pillow a cross with a circle around it, and recite:
Dragon north, dragon south,
[vertical line of cross]
Dragon east, dragon west,
[horizontal line of cross]
Sweet dreams on the dragon's breast
[clockwise circle around cross].
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