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294 Scotland, Social and Domestic.
and in whyt and browne cloathes." The King " was a
braw man, weill favoured and broad faced." Isobel found
in Fairyland " elf bullis routting and shoutting up and
doune," which sorely affrighted her.
Isobel explained how witches assumed the forms of
the lower animals. When one of the sisterhood pro-
posed to enter into a hare, she said : —
" I sail gae intill ane haire,
With sorrow and sych and meikle care ;
And I sail gae in the Devillis nam,
Ay quhill I com hom againe."
To obtain restoration to the human form, she said : — ■
" Haire, haire, God send thee caire ;
I am in an hairis liknes just now ;
Bot I salbe in a womanis liknes ewin now."
When the feline form was selected, the witch spoke
as follows : —
" I sail gae intill a catt,
With sorrow and sych and a blak shat ;
And I sail gae in the Devillis nam,
Ay quhill I com hom againe."
The witch became a crow on these words being thrice
spoken : —
" I sail gae intill a craw,
With sorrow and sych and a blak thraw ;
And I sail gae in the Devillis nam,
Ay quhill I com hom againe."
To raise a tempest, the witch beat on a piece of wet
rag with a piece of timber, exclaiming thrice : —
" I knok this ragg wpon this stane,
To raise the win in the Devillis nam ;
It sail not lye vntil I please againe."