David Webster

A Collection of Rare & Curious Tracts on Witchcraft & the Second Sight (1820)

Traditional Witchcraft

"[...]detestable dealings of those witches, shee confessed, that upon the night of Allhallow Even last, shee was accompanied as well with the persons aforesaide, as also with a great many other witches, to the number of two hundreth, and that all they together went to sea, each one in a riddle or cive, and went into the same very substantially, with flaggons of wine, making merrie and drinking by the way in the same riddles or cives, to the Kirke of North Barrick in Lowthian, and that after they had landed, tooke hands on the lande and daunced this reill or short daunce, singing all with one voice, Commer goe ye before, commer goe ye, Gif ye will not goe before, commer let me. At which time shee confessed, that this Geillies Duncane did goe before[...]".