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 because without it he could do nothing, he would threaten and vow to discover her incest; fearing which, she would deliver it again. Being asked the cause of her much spinning, which she was famous for, she denied any assistance from the devil, but found she had an extraordinary faculty therein, far above ordinary spinsters; yet owned, that when she came home, after her being abroad, she found there was more yarn on her wheel than she left: and that her weaver could not make cloth thereof, the yarn breaking, or falling from the loom.Once there came a stranger to her, while she was at her wheel, and proposed a way to her to make her rich; for they both lived almost upon alms. The way was this; "Stand up and say, all crosses and cares go out of this house." She answered, "God forbid, I say that, but let them be welcome when God sends them." After two or three visits more, she asked this stranger, where she dwelt? She replied; "In the Potterrow," a street in the suburbs of ofof [sic] that city; but finding neither such a house, nor such a woman, I judged, said she, it was the devil, one of my brother's acquaintances; for I know he had familiarity with the devil.

His poverty minds me of a wizzard accused and executed in Zetland, before named for witchcraft, several years ago, called Luggy to a nick-name; who being a fisher, had a trick, at any time when