[{233a}] Wodrow, i. 44.
[{233b}] Aulus Gellius, xv. 18. Dio Cassius, lib. lxvii. Crespet, De la Hayne de Diable, cited by Dalyell.
[{234}] Miscellanies, 177.
[{235}] A copy presented by Scott to Sir Alexander Boswell of Auchinleck is in the author’s possession; it bears Scott’s autograph.
[{237}] Information from Mr. Mackay, Craigmonie.
[{238}] 2 Kings, v. 26.
[{244}] i. 259. Longmans, London, 1811.
[{245}] Tylor, Primitive Culture, i. 143.
[{246}] This belief is not confined to the Highlands. Mr. Podmore quotes Ghost 636 in the Psychical Society’s collections: ‘The narrator’s mother is said to have seen the figure of a man’. The father saw nothing till his wife laid her hand on his shoulder, when he exclaimed, ‘I see him now’ (S. P. R., Nov., 1889, p. 247).
[{250}] ‘Spectral evidence’ was common in witch trials. Wierus (b. 1515) mentions a woman who confessed that she had been at a witch’s covin, or ‘sabbath,’ when her body was in bed with her husband. If there was any confirmatory testimony, if any one chose to say that he saw her at the ‘sabbath,’ that was ‘spectral evidence’. This kind of testimony made it vain for a witch to take Mr. Weller’s advice, and plead ‘a halibi,’ but even Cotton Mather admits that ‘spectral evidence’ is inconclusive.