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But before she went away she gave to Macleod a fairy banner the Bratach sith it is known as and she told him that if ever he was in great peril, or had any great desire, he was to wave that flag, and whatever he desired would come to pass. But the virtue of the Bratach sith would depart after it had been waved three times.
"Yankee that I am," he admitted, "I seem to be Scot enough to observe the prejudices and folk-ways of my forebears." "Is it your clan flag?" "Bratach Bhan Chlaun Aoidh," he said smilingly. "The White Banner of the McKays." "Good! And what may that be that bunch of weed you wear in your button-hole?" Again the young fellow laughed: "Seasgan or Cuilc in Gaelic just reed-grass, Miss Yellow-hair."
We are very strong believers here in the power of one person to damage another in absence; and when you can kill a man by sticking pins into a waxen image of him which everybody knows to be true surely you ought to be able to help a friend, especially with the aid of the Bratach sith.
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