"Andrew M'Murray, farmer in Mountsallie, in the Rhinns of Galloway at one time, one morning found one of his cows very ill. In the middle of the uneasiness about the condition of the cow a tailor 'whup-the-cat' arrived at the farm-house to do some sewing, and among the others, went out to look at the cow. He at once said the cow was witched, and told them of a way to find out the person who had done so. They got the cow to her feet, and took whatever milk she had from her, and put it in a pot with a number of pins in it, and set it on the fire to boil, with a green turf on the top of the lid. When the pot began to boil dry, a near neighbour, who was a reputed witch, arrived, apparently in a state of great pain, and excitedly asked to see the cow. Immediately the cow saw her it jumped to its feet, broke its binding, ran out of the byre, and did not stop till it was at the top of Tordoo, a round hill in the neighbourhood."(22) The Dalry district, as already seen, is comparatively rich in uncannie reminiscence, one of which also accentuates this particular point:-- "The cow of a Dalry crofter became nearly yell quite unexpectedly. A neighbour said she would soon find out the reason. She boiled a quantity of needles and pins in some milk drippings from the cow, when an old woman who was reputed to be a witch knocked at the window and begged her to give over boiling as she was pricked all over, and if they did so the cow would soon be all right, which accordingly happened."(23) Two "cantrip incantations" concerned with love-making, strung together in rhyme, have been handed down:-- "In the pingle or the pan, Or the haurpan o' man, Boil the heart's-bluid o' the tade, Wi' the tallow o' the gled; Hawcket kail an' hen-dirt, Chow'd cheese an chicken-wort, Yallow puddocks champit sma', Spiders ten, and gellocks twa, Sclaters twa, frae foggy dykes, Bumbees twunty, frae their bykes, Asks frae stinking lochens blue, Ay, will make a better stue; Bachelors maun hae a charm, Hearts they hae fu' o' harm." The second, while of much the same character, has evidently more special reference to the weaker sex:-- "Yirbs for the blinking queen, Seeth now, when it is e'en, Boortree branches, yellow gowans, Berry rasps and berry rowans; Deil's milk frae thrissles saft, Clover blades frae aff the craft; Binwud leaves and blinmen's baws, Heather bells and wither'd haws; Something sweet, something sour, Time about wi' mild and door; Hinnie-suckles, bluidy-fingers, Napple roots and nettle stingers, Bags o' bees and gall in bladders, Gowks' spittles, pizion adders: May dew and fumarts' tears, Nool shearings, nowt's neers, Mix, mix, six and six, And the auld maid's cantrip fix."(24) In Allan Ramsay's pastoral play of the _Gentle Shepherd_ a vivid word-painting occurs of the popular estimation of the witch methods and witch beliefs of the times.