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Witchcraft. 297
And yeird foot-stane,
There she sittis, and heir she is gane,
Let her neuir com heir again."
Fevers of all sorts were expelled on the utterance of
these words : —
" I forbid the quaking feaveris,
The sea feaveris, the land feaveris,
And all the feaveris that enir God ordained,
Out of the heid, out of the heart,
Out of the bak, out of the sydis,
Out of the kneyis, out of the thies ;
Fra the pointis of the fingeris
To the nebis of the taes
Out sail the feaver gae ;
Som to the hill, som to the hap,
Som to the stane, some to the stak,
In Saint Peteris nam, Saint Paullis nam,
And all the saintes of heavin,
In the name of the Father, the Sone, and of the Halie Gaist."
Some of these rlrymes were common among pretenders
to sorcery in every district of the country. We quote two
charms which were used by the witches of Dunferm-
line : —
" Out throw toothe, and out throw tung,
Out throw liver, and out throw lung,
And out throw halie harn pan ;
The day is Fryday,
I shall fast quhill I may,
To heare the knell
Of Christ his bell.
The Lord God on His chappell stood,
And his twelve Apostles good,
In came Drightine,
Dear Lord Almightine,
Say man or ladie,
Sweet Saint Marie,
What is yon fire, so light, so bright 1