Letters on demonology and witchcraft. Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.
- Walter Scott
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Letters on demonology and witchcraft. Addressed to J. G. Lockhart, Esq / by Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![majority, who, from the first, bad considered the heavenly phenomenon as a siipernatural weapon- schaw, held for the pni-pose of a sig-n and warning of civil wars to come. “ In the year 1686, in the months of June and July,” says the honest chronicler, “ many yet alive can witness, that about the Crossfoi'd Boat, two miles beneath Lanark, especially at the Mains, on the water of Clyde, many people gathered together for several afternoons, where there were showers of bonnets, hats, gims, and swords, which covered the trees and the ground; companies of men in arms marching in order upon the water side ; com- panies meeting companies, going all through other, and then all falhng to the ground and disappearing; other companies immediately appeared, marching the same way. I went there three afternoons together, and as I observed there were two-thfrds of the people that were together saw, and a third that saw not, and though I could see nothing, there was such a fright and trembhng on those that did see, that was discernible to all from those that saw not. There was a gentleman standing next to me, who spoke as too many gentlemen and others speak, who said, ‘ A pack of damned witches and warlocks that have the second sight! the devil ha’t do I see and immediately there was a discernible change in his countenance. With as much fear and trembling as any woman I saw there, he called out, ‘ All you that do not see, say nothing; for I persuade you it is matter of fact, and disceniible to all that is not stone-ldind!’ And those who did see told what works \_i. e. locks] the gims had, and their length and uideness, and what handles the swords had.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22029667_0042.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
