Picture No | 10021916 |
Date | early 19th century ? |
Description | Riddling a Changeling |
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A Galloway couple, believing their child a changeling, take it on Hallowe'en to the village wise woman who 'riddles' it in rowan smoke which breaks the spell
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Source | J Copland, in J Maxwell Wood, Witchcraft in south-western Scotland, page 167 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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