 | James Hogg - 1821 - 436 pages
...of the neighbours occasionally mention this, along with it the murder of the pedlar is always hinted at. And it is scarcely thirty years since one of the...and cut the shape of the cross on her forehead. This is called scoring aboon the breath, and overthrows their power of doing any further mischief. An' afterwards... | |
 | John Jamieson - English language - 1825 - 722 pages
...thirty years since one of the millars was tried for his lite, for scoring a woman whom he supposed to be a witch. He had long suspected her as the cause of...their "power of doing them , any further mischief." Hogg's Mountain Bard, N. p. 34. SCORE, s. A deep, narrow, ragged indentation on the side of a hill,... | |
 | James Hogg - Scottish poetry - 1840 - 378 pages
...of the neighbours occasionally mention this, along with it the murder of the pedlar is always hinted at. And it is scarcely thirty years since one of the...and cut the shape of the cross on her forehead. This is called scoring abuon the breath, and overthrows their power of doing any further mischief. NOTE... | |
 | Alexander Hislop (publisher) - 1874 - 786 pages
...thirty years since one of the millers was tried for his life, for scoring a woman whom he supposed to be a witch. He had long suspected her as the cause of...overthrows their power of doing them any further mischief. — Hogg. ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST. An enterprising farmer in the neighbourhood of Rothesay gave... | |
 | John Jamieson - English language - 1879 - 912 pages
...thirty years since one of the milIan was tried for his life, for fcvriny a woman uhom be supposed to be a witch. He had long suspected her as the cause of...evening, he seized her forcibly, and cut the shape of ti e cross on her forehead. This they call »coring abooii the breath, which overthrows their power... | |
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... at. And it is scarcely thirty years since one of the millers was tried for his life, for scoring a woman whom he supposed a witch. He had long suspected her as the cause of all the misfortunes attending him, and, enticing her into the kiln one Sabbath... 