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

by John Gregorson Campbell

This was to be said thrice.

CHARM FOR SPRAINS.

(Eòlas an t-sìochaidh.)

This charm also to be efficacious must be thrice repeated. The variations in the versions met with, have been almost entirely in the omission of lines in some that are found in others:

“A charm in sooth.

The charm that Colum-Kil applied

To a young man’s knee

In the hill

For pang, for swelling,

For hurt, for wound,