Footnotes

Boggy. ↩

Clock ↩

Enjoy. ↩

To come forrit—to offer oneself as a communicant. ↩

It was a common belief in Scotland that the devil appeared as a black man. This appears in several witch trials and I think in Law’s Memorials, that delightful store-house of the quaint and grisly. ↩

Let it be so, for my tale! ↩