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24 for fear of being seen, and be made to carry skate fish, and dulce. They think witches are the worst kind of devils, and make use of cats to ride upon, or kail kebbers and besom shafts; and that they sail over the sea in cockle shells, and bewitches lads and lasses and disables bride-grooms. They think Willie and the Wisp is a fiery devil, and lead people off their road to drown them in the sea. They think Kelpy is a fly devil and roars before a loss at sea. And they belleve 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 adrift. But if they neglect to do this, they say the fairies will carry of the child, and leave a block of wood with the mother.

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