‘“[I (or we) conjure] thee go with us [or me]!”

And presently they become as we are, either cats, hares, crows, etc., and go [with us whither we would. When] we would ride, we take windle-straws, or been-stakes [bean-stalks], and put them betwixt our feet, and say thrice:

‘“Horse and Hattock, horse and go,
Horse and pellatris, ho! ho!”

And immediately we fly away wherever we would; and lest our husbands should miss us out of our beds, we put in a besom, or a three-legged stool, beside them, and say thrice over:

‘“I lay down this besom [or stool] in the Devil’s name,
Let it not stir till I come home again!”

And immediately it seems a woman, by the side of our husband.

‘We cannot turn in[to] the likeness of

‘“[I] put out this beef in the Devil’s name,
That mickle silver and good price come hame!”

‘I did even so [whenever I put] forth either horse, nolt [cattle], webs [of cloth], or any other thing to be sold, and still put in this feather, and said the [same words thrice] over, to cause the commodities sell well, and ... thrice over—

‘“Our Lord to hunting he [is gone]
.......... marble stone,
He sent word to Saint Knitt ...”