Witchcraft and superstitious record in the south-western district of ScotlandWood, J. Maxwell (John Maxwell)
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Witchcraft and superstitious record in the south-western district of Scotland
Wood, J. Maxwell (John Maxwell)
Folklore -- Scotland; Witchcraft -- Scotland
GIRN, girning, whining, or fretting.
GLAMOUR, bewitchment.
GLED, kite.
GLENTED, sparkled, gleamed.
GLOWER, to gaze intently.
GOWAN, mountain daisy.
GOWK'S SPITTLES, plant froth (discharged by an insect, Cicada).
GREETS, cries or weeps.
GRINWAN, a noose of horse-hair attached to a stick or rod.
GRUN, ground, referring to the grinding of grain.
GYRE-CARLINE, a mother-witch.
H
HAED, possessed.
"HAGGERT WEE GRANUM," a rather ragged small old woman.
HAG-RIDDEN, bewitched (_lit._, ridden by a witch).
HALD, hall.
HALE, well, in good health.
HALLOW-EVE, the night before All-Hallow.
HALVE, a hand-fishing net on a wooden frame.
HANNIE, suitable, a fitting time.
HANTLE, much.
HAURNED, roasted.
HAURPAN, brain-pan or skull.
HAWCKET, probably finely chopped.
HAWS, fruit of the hawthorn.
HEREZELD, the best beast on the land, given to the landlord on the death
of a farm tenant.
HERIOT, the fine exacted by the superior on the death of a tenant.
HERRIE, confiscate.
HEUGH, a small height or eminence.
HIP O', shoulder or edge of.
HINNIE-SUCKLES, honeysuckle.
HOOSE-RIGGIN', roof.
HOOVES, abdomen, (_lit._, swollen by gaseous distension).
HOWE, depth.
HOUK, to dig up.
HOWLET, an owl.
HOWS, house.
HYNT, caught up.
I
ILK, the same name.
ILL E'E, evil eye.
J
JIMP, neat and slender.
JOW, ringing of a bell.
K
KAIN, rent or exchange in kind.
"KELLY," Satan, Old Nick.
KEP SKAITH, avert evil.
KEPPIT, caught.
KILTED, tucked up.
KIMMER, witch-wife or "gossip."
KNAG, keg, or wooden vessel.
"KNOCK THE BIG," to hull the barley.
KOW, a goblin.
KYE, cows or oxen.
L
LAIR, quagmire, to entice into a quagmire.
LAMMASTIDE, August, beginning of.
LAVE, remainder.
LIFT, vault of the heavens.
LINGLE, leather-thong.
LOCHEN, small loch or tarn.
LOOFIE, fingerless glove.
LOUPES, jumps.
LOURING, lowering of clouds.
LOUTHE, abundance.
LOWNE, silent, still.
LOWSE, loosen.
LUGS, ears.
M
MALEFICES, offences.
MALISON, prognostication for evil.
MART, a fattened ox (killed at Martinmas for winter use).
MAUN, must.
MAUT, meal.
MEAL-ARK, meal chest.
MEALL, male.
MEIKLE, much.
MEIL, meal.
METTLE, with spirit.
"MILKED THE TETHER," extracted the milk by witchcraft through the halter.
MINNIE, mother.
MOOLS, earth or soil.
MORT-CLOTH, funeral pall.
MOU', mouth.
MUIR-ILL, a disease specially affecting black cattle.
N
NAIG, riding-horse or nag.
NAPPLE-ROOTS, heath peas.
NEERS, kidneys.
NEIST, nearest or next.
NETTLE-STINGERS, nettle leaves.
NIEVE, hand or fist.
NOB, nose, also boat's prow.
NOOL-SHEARINGS, horn parings.
NOWT, oxen (a corrupt form is noat).
O
O'ERSWAK, sound of breakers.
ONSTEAD, home or farm-steading.
P
PADDOCK, a frog.
PAWKY, shrewd and crafty.
PAWT, movement of foot, kick.
PHILIBEG, a pouch worn in front of a kilt.
PICKLE, small quantity.
PIG, an earthenware vessel.
PINGLE, a small pan.
PIRN, a reel.
PIZION, poison.
PLOTCOCK, the Devil.
POULDER, gun-powder.
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