SUPERSTITION IN ROSS SHIRE.
Two or three weeks ago a crofter’s wife, not satisfied with the produce of her cow, supposed the animal to be bewitched, and consulted the ruling elder of the district on the subject. The elder advised the cow to be milked at midnight on the night of the new moon, and this advice was followed with due ceremony, but the result is not yet publicly known.—ln a parish church manse in the same district the minister’s wife became deluded with similar notions as to her cows, and she consulted an old woman in the neighborhood who is reputed to have skill in such matters. The old woman’s advice was like the elder’s, but she went further, and asserted that the first stranger who entered the manse would be the person guilty.of bewitching the cows. On the following day a servant girl from a neighboring house wont to the manse on an errand she had been sent by her mistress, and she was at once accused by the minister’s servant of witchcraft.
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Evening Star, Issue 3733, 9 February 1875, Page 3
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