The Witch-cult in Western Europe / A Study in Anthropology by Margaret Alice Murray

Author:Margaret Alice Murray
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Witchcraft -- Great Britain, Ethnology
Publisher: Project Gutenberg
Published: 2007-01-21T16:00:00+00:00

Her statements regarding the change of witches into animals I have examined in the section on Familiars (p. 234). The words used to effect these changes are given in full. When a witch wished to take on the form of a hare she said:

'I sall goe intill ane haire,

With sorrow, and sych, and meikle caire;

And I sall goe in the Divellis nam,

Ay quhill I com hom againe.'

To change into a cat or a crow the last two lines were retained unaltered, but the first two were respectively,

'I sall goe intill ane catt,

With sorrow, and sych, and a blak shot'

or 'I sall goe intill a craw,

With sorrow, and sych, and a blak thraw.'

To return into human form the witch said:

'Haire, haire, God send thee caire.

I am in an haire's liknes just now,

Bot I sal be in a womanis liknes ewin now.'

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