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

by John Gregorson Campbell

And the luxurious court;

A male plant, a female plant,

A plant the birds of the streams had,

A plant the Good Being had in his need,

And Christ had among strangers,

So better be its reward to the right hand

That holds it.”[24]

JUNIPER (Iubhar-beinne, lit. Mountain Yew).

This plant is a protection by sea and land, and no house in which it is will take fire. It must be pulled by the roots, with its branches made into four bunches, and taken between the five fingers, saying:

“I will pull the bounteous yew