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Indeed Issobell Young, the mother of these persons, had herself endeavoured to check the progress of the distemper by taking "ane quik ox with ane catt, and ane grit quantitie of salt," and proceeding "to burie the ox and catt quik with the salt, in ane deip hoill in the grund, as ane sacrifice to the devill, that the rest of the guidis might be fred of the seiknes or diseases."
In this passage "quick" is used in the old sense of "living," as in the phrase "the quick and the dead." J.G. Dalyell, op. cit. p. 186. Bestiall=animals; seik=sick; calling=driving; guidis=cattle. As to the custom of cutting off the leg of a diseased animal and hanging it up in the house, see above, p. 296, note 1. County Folk-lore, vol. v. Lincolnshire, collected by Mrs. Part i. Jan. 1902.
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