Ethnology in Folklore
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" This part of the ceremony being three times repeated, and from the commencement to the end of these rites no other words having been spoken. Hector was removed from the crave and conveved back to his THE ETHNIC GENEALOGY OF FOLKLORE. 143 bed. He recovered from his illness and his brother died. * There can be no doubt about such an example as this. " The alleged act of transferring disease or pain from one person to another, " says Mr. Forbes Leslie, " and thus relieving the original sufferer,... is one of the most common articles of accusation in the trials of witches. . . . That the transfer of maladies was only a modification of the tenet of sacrifice of one life being efficient for the saving of another appears from the explanation of Catherine Bigland, who was tried in 1615 for having transferred a disease from herself to a man. Having heard the accusation, she exclaimed : " If Will- iam Bigland lived, she would die ; therefore God forbid he live. " f The genealogy does not end here, for the practices of the Scottish witches exactly carry out the tenets of the Druids, who believed that the life of one man could only be redeemed by that of another.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" This part of the ceremony being three times repeated, and from the commencement to the end of these rites no other words having been spoken. Hector was removed from the crave and conveved back to his THE ETHNIC GENEALOGY OF FOLKLORE. 143 bed. He recovered from his illness and his brother died. * There can be no doubt about such an example as this. " The alleged act of transferring disease or pain from one person to another, " says Mr. Forbes Leslie, " and thus relieving the original sufferer,... is one of the most common articles of accusation in the trials of witches. . . . That the transfer of maladies was only a modification of the tenet of sacrifice of one life being efficient for the saving of another appears from the explanation of Catherine Bigland, who was tried in 1615 for having transferred a disease from herself to a man. Having heard the accusation, she exclaimed : " If Will- iam Bigland lived, she would die ; therefore God forbid he live. " f The genealogy does not end here, for the practices of the Scottish witches exactly carry out the tenets of the Druids, who believed that the life of one man could only be redeemed by that of another.
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