Nineteenth century. It was the common rumour that Elphin Irving came not into the world like the other sinful creatures of the earth, but was one of the Kane-bairns of the fairies, whilk they had to pay to the enemy of man's salvation every seventh year. The poor lady-fairy,—a mother's aye a mother, be she Elve's flesh or Eve's flesh,—hid her Elf son beside the christened flesh in Marion Irving's cradle, and the auld enemy lost his prey for a time.... And touching this lad, ye all ken his mother was a hawk of an uncannie nest, a second cousin of Kate Kimmer, of Barfloshan, as rank a witch as ever rode on ragwort.[955] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 915: Quicherat, i, p. 67; Murray, pp. 25 6.] [Footnote 916: Id., i, p. 87; M., p. 42.] [Footnote 917: Id., i, pp. 88-9; M., p. 43.] [Footnote 918: Id., i, p. 177; M., p. 80.] [Footnote 919: Id., i, p. 178; M., 80.] [Footnote 920: Id., i, p. 186; M., p. 84.] [Footnote 921: Id., i, p. 187; M., p. 84.] [Footnote 922: Id., i, p. 209; M., p. 91.] [Footnote 923: Bour-le-mont, cp. Bour-jo, 'a word of unknown derivation'. See Walter Scott, _Witchcraft and Demonology_.] [Footnote 924: Q., i, p. 210; M., p. 91.] [Footnote 925: Q., i, pp. 211-12; M., pp. 91-2.] [Footnote 926: Id., i, p. 242; M., pp. 96-7.] [Footnote 927: _Examination of John Walsh._] [Footnote 928: Pitcairn, i, pt. ii, pp. 52-3, 56-7.] [Footnote 929: Id., i, pt. ii, pp. 162-3.] [Footnote 930: Remigius, pt. i, p. 55.] [Footnote 931: Giffard, p. 10; _Percy Soc._ viii.] [Footnote 932: Id. ib., p. 9.] [Footnote 933: Pitcairn, ii, p. 25.] [Footnote 934: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, p. 177.] [Footnote 935: _Spalding Club Misc._, i, pp, 119, 121, 125.] [Footnote 936: Burton, i, p. 253.] [Footnote 937: Boguet, p. 132.] [Footnote 938: _Maitland Club Misc._, ii, p. 167.] [Footnote 939: Dalyell, p. 536.] [Footnote 940: _County Folklore_, iii, Orkney, pp. 112-14; _Maitland Club Misc._, ii, pp. 188-9.] [Footnote 941: _Wonderfull Discoverie of Margaret and Phillip Flower_, E 3.] [Footnote 942: Dalyell, p. 470.] [Footnote 943: Webster, pp. 300-2.] [Footnote 944: More, p. 232.] [Footnote 945: Pitcairn, iii, p. 601.] [Footnote 946: Pitcairn, iii, pp. 604, 607, 611, 613.] [Footnote 947: Id., iii, p. 617.] [Footnote 948: _Highland Papers_, iii, pp. 19, 23, 27.] [Footnote 949: Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 152.] [Footnote 950: Id., ii, p. 137.] [Footnote 951: Law, p. 27 note.] [Footnote 952: _Highland Papers_, iii, pp. 36-8.] [Footnote 953: _Sadducismus Debellatus_, p. 50.] [Footnote 954: Id., p. 25.] [Footnote 955: Cunningham, pp. 246, 251] APPENDIX II TRIAL OF SILVAIN NEVILLON AND GENTIEN LE CLERC AT ORLEANS, 1614-15 [This trial is included here as a specimen of purely ritual witchcraft, without spell-casting.] _Arrest & procedure faicte par le Lieutenant Criminel d Orleans, contre Siluain Neuillon, Gentien le Clerc dit Niuelle, & Mathurin Ferrand du village de Nouan en Sologne, conuaincus de sortilege le_ 20 _Juin_ 1614.