CONTENTS
John Gregorson Campbell
PAGE
CHAPTER I
Black Witchcraft
Introductory
1
Witches and Milk
7
Counter-Charms
10
Going to Sea
15
Raising Storms and Drowning People
19
Witches as Sheep
30
Witches as Hares
33
Witches as Cats
34
Witches as Rats
42
Witches as Gulls
42
Witch as Cormorant
43
Witches as Whales
44
Delaying the Birth of a Child
45
Clay Corpse
46
Silver Sixpence
49
Saving Horses
50
Tailor and Witches
50
Celebrated Witches
50
Wizard Rising after Death
52
How to Detect Witches
53
CHAPTER II
White Witchcraft
Introductory
54
EÒlas
57
Cure for the Evil Eye
59
Charm for Sprains
66
Charm for Bruises
67
Charm for Rheumatic Pains
67
Charm for Consumption
68
For Affections of the Chest
68
Charm for Toothache
69
Made for Merrion MacFadyn
70
Charms for Cattle
71
Charm against Danger
73
The Old Wife’s Charm for her Cow
73
Charm for a Sheep in its Cot
74
Against Drowning and in War
74
Charm against Dangers in War
75
Charm for Cloth
77
Charm for General Use
79
“The Gospel of Christ”
79
Charm for conferring Graces
80
Charm for the Faces of Young Women
81
Love Charm
82
Charm to keep away Harm in a Lawsuit
83
Serpent Stone
84
Snail Beads
88
Frog Stone
89
Stones
90
Fairy Arrow
91
Clyx.com