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for fear of being ſeen, and be made to carry ſcate, fiſh, and dulce. They think Witches are the worſt kind of devils, and make uſe of cats to ride upon, or kill kebbers and beſon-ſhafts; and that they fall over the ſea in cockle ſhells, and bewitches lads and laſſes, ard diſibles bride-grooms. They think Willie and the Wiſp is a fiery Devil, and leads people aff-their road to drown them in the ſea. They think Kelpy is a fly devil, and roars before a loſs at ſea. And they believe that the Fairies lift new born bairns from their mothers; and that none of them are ſafe to lie with their mothers for a night or two after they are born, unleſs the mother get a pair of men's breeches under their head, which ſets the Fairies adriſt. But if they neglect to do this, they ſay the Fairies will carry off the child, and leave an old luck of wood with the mother.

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