Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland

by J. Maxwell Wood

Witchcraft and Superstitious Record

Witchcraft and
Superstitious Record

IN THE

South-Western District of Scotland

Witchcraft		Witch Trials
Fairy Lore		Brownie Lore
Wraiths		Warnings
Death Customs		Funeral Ceremony
Ghost Lore		Haunted Houses

BY
J. MAXWELL WOOD, M.B.
Author of “Smuggling in the Solway and
Around the Galloway Sea-board”
Editor of “The Gallovidian,” 1900-1911

Illustrated from Special Drawings by
John Copland, Esq., Dundrenna

Dumfries: J. Maxwell & Son
1911

“For she’s gathered witch dew in the Kells kirkyard,
In the mirk how of the moon,
And fed hersel’ wi’ th’ wild witch milk
With a red-hot burning spoon.”
—M‘Lehan.