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Even in these days of scientific meteorology there are spots where such heterodoxy still lingers. "I did hear of a witch in the Lewes fifteen years agone," said an old gillie to the author of "In Assynt," a paper published in the Cornhill Magazine, July, 1879. "She lived at Stornaway, and did sell winds to sailors. One of our Loch Inver boats did not get away that autumn for weeks. The wind was always dead against them. Well, they did go to her, and what they paid her I did not hear, but she gave them a black string tied with three knots, and said, 'Ye'll be getting aw a' to-morrow. Now, if the wind is not strong enough loose one knot, if even then it is not enough loose the second, but on your life! on your life! dinna loose the third.' Well,