e
co
, i. e. arrow of the Gods, and arrow of the Elves. Grimm, Deut. Mythol., p. 22.
[419] "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme
Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop,
And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend!
three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare prepared for them on reaching the end of the fourth furrow."—Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland, p. 33.
[420] See above, pp. [302], [311]. Graham also relates this legend in his Picturesque Sketches of Perthshire.