Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland / Tales and Traditions Collected Entirely from Oral Sources

by John Gregorson Campbell

Feadag, Sguabag, the Gearran’s gloom

And shrivelling Cailleach, sharp bristled.”

It extends to three days, and its boisterous character is shewn in the rhyme:

“Feadag, Feadag, mother of the cold Faoilleach,

It kills sheep and lambs,

It kills the big kine one by one,

And horses at the same time.”[59]

Gobag, THE SHARP-BILLED ONE,

lasts for a week, others say three, four, and nine days.