[76]
"Lucii Apuleii Metamorphoses," lib. iii.
[77]
The music of this witch tune is unhappily lost. But that of another, believed to have been popular on such occasions, is preserved.
[78]
I am obliged to the kindness of Mr. Pitcairn for this singular extract. The southern reader must be informed that the jurisdiction or regality of Broughton embraced Holyrood, Canongate, Leith, and other suburban parts of Edinburgh, and bore the same relation to that city as the borough of Southwark to London.
[79]
A copy of the record of the trial, which took place in Ayrshire, was sent to me by a friend who withheld his name, so that I can only thank him in this general acknowledgment.
[80]
This may remind the reader of Cazotte's "Diable Amoureux."
[81]
See Fountainhall's "Decisions," vol. i. p. 15.
[82]
Law's "Memorialls," edited by C.K. Sliarpe, Esq.: Prefatory Notice, p. 93.
[83]
The precognition is the record of the preliminary evidence on which the public officers charged in Scotland with duties entrusted to a grand jury in England, incur the responsibility of sending an accused person to trial.
[84]
Drawing blood, that is, by two cuts in the form of a cross on the witch's forehead, confided in all throughout Scotland as the most powerful counter charm.
[85]
See Hone's "Every-Day Book," p. 62.
[86]
"Apparition Evidence."