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332 Scotland, Social and Domestic.
being questioned anent the charming of kine, deponed
as follows : That about three years since Anna Symp-
sone, then servant to Robert Hepburne, of Keith, could
not please the milk of their kine, for it gave no creame ;
and the said Agnes said, ' Can you not cast some of it
over into the grass, for they say to ane by word, God
betack ws to, they are under the^ yird that have as
much neede of it as they that are above the yird.'
Confesses how shee went and saw the milk, and it was
no ways altered as shee thought ; hereafter shee went
with them to the milking of the kine herselfe, but remem-
bered not whether shee did milk the kine or not ; but con-
fesses shee did cast over the milk into the grass herselfe,
and said, ' God betak ws to, there may be they are under
the ear the that have as much neede of it as they that
are above the yird.' Grants likewise shee did put salt
and wheat bread into the cow's lugs. Being posed where
shee gat the wheat bread, and how long it was betuixt
the time she did cast the milk into the grass and the
puting of the salt and bread into the cow's lugs, answered,
That Anna Sympsone and Rachell Forrester brought it
from Hadingtone, and that it was that day, or else the
day after, betuixt the casting of the milk into the grass
and putting of the salt into the cow's lugs, and that at
the same time Anna Sympsone and Rachell Forrester
were present. Being asked who did learne her, an-
swered, she heard it of ane going man. The Session,
taking to consideration her deposition, referred her to'
the Presbiterie." The Presbytery ordained Agnes Gour-
lay " to mak publick repentance in sackcloth."
The Kirk-session of Auchterhouse, on the 9th July,
1646, appointed a fast to be held, "because of the
scandal of witches and charmers in the district ;" and for