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

by John Gregorson Campbell

She swims pleasantly

And I swim cheerfully spinning;

When I sow my flax

And spin my lint

I will make linen from the awns

And get seven marks for the yard.]

Water-cress pulled through flag-stone,

And given to wife unawares,

Deer’s shank in the herring’s head,

And in the slender body of the speckled salmon.”