Merry sean lads are we!”
[54] Hone’s “Every-Day Book.”
[55] Spinning-wheel.
[56] Every-Day Book.
[57] On the Diseases of Cornish Miners. By William Wale Tayler, F.R.C.S.
[58] When cattle or human beings have been bewitched, it was very commonly thought that if a bottle of urine from the diseased beast or person was obtained, then corked very tight and buried mouth downwards, that the witch would be afflicted with strangury, and in her suffering confess her crime and beg forgiveness.
[59] Throb.
[60] The invocation of the “Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,” invariably accompanies every form of charm.
[61] Borlase’s Observations on the Ancient and Present State of the Island of Scilly.—“Notes and Queries,” vol. x. p. 181. 1854.
[62] The Survey of Cornwall. By Richard Carew.