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Rh "A thorn or a burr She takes for a spur, "With a lash of the bramble she rides now. Through brake and through briers, O'er ditches and mires, She follows the spirit that guides now.": The Hag.

The meeting-place was arranged by the Devil, who sometimes rode there on a goat. At their supper no bread or salt was eaten; they drank out of horses' skulls, and danced, sometimes back to back, sometimes from west to east, for the dances at the ancient Baal festivals were from east to west, and it was evil and ill-omened to move the other way. For this dance the Devil played a bag-pipe made of a hen's skull and cats' tails.