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292 Scotland, Social and Domestic.
At this interview she promised to meet him, " in the
night time, in the kirk of Alderne." When they Dext
met, she consented to renounce her baptism. Having
dedicated herself to satanic service, a neighbour witch
held her up to the Devil for baptism ; he made an in-
cision in her shoulder, " suked out " some blood, which
he spouted into his hand, and then sprinkled on her
head, saying, " I baptize the to myself in my ain name."
At a subsequent meeting he seduced her. The Devil
generally appeared as " a very muckle roch man," but
was sometimes like a deer. He was always "cold ;" he
wore boots, but his feet were forked and cloven. On
meeting him, each curtseyed, and said, "Ye are welcome,
owr Lord," or, " How doe ye, my Lord 1 "
The witches were divided into " covens," or companies
of thirteen persons. Each witch had her spiritual
attendant. These had all names. One, called " Swine/'
was clothed in grass-green, and attended a witch, nick-
named Pikle neirist the ivind. The spirit " Rorie "
was clad in yellow, and attended the witch known as
Throw the come yaird. A third spirit, the " Roaring
Lion," was arrayed in sea-green ; he waited upon the
witch Bessie Ride. " Max' Hector," the fourth spirit,
attended the witch whose soubriquet was Owe?' the dyk
with it " Robert the Rule " was the fifth spirit ; he
was clothed in satin, and commanded the others. The
sixth was " Theiff of Hell." The seventh, "Read
Reiver," was apparelled in black, and waited upon Isobel
herself. "Robert the Jackis," the eighth spirit, was
an " aiged, glaiked, gowked spirit ;" he waited on the
witch Able and Stout. " Laing," the ninth spirit, at-
tended Bessie Bauld. The tenth spirit was " Thomas
a Fearie." At these unhallowed entertainments, the

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