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

by John Gregorson Campbell

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Then said Peter to James,

‘I can get no peace or rest with the toothache.’

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Christ said, ‘Answer the question,

And the toothache and the verse

Will never be in the same head together’.”

CHARMS FOR CATTLE.

These were even more numerous than those for the distempers of men. Cattle are nowadays better housed, fed, and attended to, and hence are not so liable to ill-understood ailments that gave persons of ‘skill’ employment.