Like gypsies on meeting well know one another.”
I may appropriately add to these certain proverbs which are given in an extremely rare “Denham Tract,” of which only fifty copies were printed by John Bell Richmond, “in. Com. Ebor.” This quaint little work of only six pages is entitled, “A Few Popular Rhymes, Proverbs, and Sayings relating to Fairies, Witches, and Gypsies,” and bears the dedication, “To every individual Fairy, Witch, and Gypsy from the day of the Witch of Endor down to that of Billy Dawson, the Wise Man of Stokesley, lately defunct, this tract is inscribed.”
Witches.
Vervain and Dill
Hinder witches from their will.
The following refers to rowan or mountain-ash wood, which is supposed to be a charm against witchcraft:—
If your whipstick’s made of rowan
You can ride your nag thro’ any town.
Much about a pitch,