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these two have suffered considerable damage
from trees having been planted on them.
I have obtained from the Doctor further informa:
:tion regarding the woman in Golspie who
claims the power of stopping bleeding. It seems
She gathers herbs
and muttering a spell over them turns in the direction of the
sufferer. In the parish
of Rogart there lives an old woman who is
believed to have the evil eye with which she can dry
up her neighbours cows or if she looks in the
face of a colley makes it no longer any use for sheep
herding. Only a few weeks ago she is supposed
to have given a demonstration of her powers in
a school board election. She has an aged
husband whose vote had been canvassed &
who after much persuasion consented to
allow himself when the polling day arrived
to be driven to the poll. By some mistake
he was forgotten by the candidate whom he
favoured and though he sat arrayed in
his best clothes from 10.0' to 4.0 no carriage
arrived. So furious grew his dame that
at length she called witchcraft to her aid,
employed "botchach" (?), and produced con:
:fusion by making a "collision" in the

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