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 cross witches above the breath, i.e., on the forehead, so as to draw their drörie (blood) with a steel noraleg (a needle with the eye broken), deprived them of their power to hurt. A steel knife stuck in the mast of a boat was used as a means of raising the wind; but some old fishermen would rather have rowed in a calm than had recourse to this expedient, which it was said had been the overthrow of some.

A story is told in verse by one of the Scotts of Lund of a belated traveller who was sorely pressed by a swarm of hillfolk or trows near the Heugins o' Watley:

When instruments of domestic use or