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Babies carried off and changed by fairies. In mid winter of last winter of 1884, in Burghed, in the North of Scotland, around great fires, incantations were pronounced to drive away the evil spirits. The custom has come down from the time of the Druids.
Where'er you find the Fisher folk / There, under superstitions yoke, / For a strong faith 'mong them prevails.