ting
after it was maid.

The wordis which we spak, quhan we maid the pictur, for
distroyeing of _the Laird of Parkis_ meall-children, wer
thus:

'IN THE DIVELLIS nam, we powr in this water
among this mowld (meall,)[73]
For lang duyning and ill heall;
We putt it into the fyre,
That it mey be brunt both stik and stowre.
It salbe brunt, with owr will,
As any stikle[74] wpon a kill.'

THE DIVELL taught ws the wordis; and quhan ve haid learned
them, we all fell downe wpon owr bare kneyis, and owr hair
abowt owr eyes, and owr handis lifted wp, looking steadfast
wpon THE DIVELL, still saying the wordis thryse ower, till
it wes maid. And then, in THE DIVELLIS nam, we did put it
in, in the midst of the fyre. Efter it had skrukned[75] a
little before the fyre, and quhan it ves read lyk a coale,
we took it owt in THE DIVELLIS nam. Till it be broken, it
will be the deathe of all the meall children that _the Laird
of Park_ will ewer get. Cast it ower an Kirk, it will not
brak quhill[76] it be broken with an aix, or som such lyk
thing, be a man's handis. If it be not broken, it will last
an hundreth yeir. It hes ane cradle about it of clay, to
preserue it from skaith;[77] and it wes rosten each vther
day, at the fyr; som tymes on pairt of it, som tymes an
vther pairt of it; it vold be a litle wat with water, and
then rosten. The bairn vold be brunt and rosten, ewin as it
ves by ws.--_Pitcairne's Criminal Trials_, Vol. iii. pp. 605
and 612.

[Footnote 62: Male.]

[Footnote 63: In the nook, or corner, of his plaid.]

[Footnote 64: Pounded, or powdered it, like meal.]

[Footnote 65: To make the plaster fine, and free from earthy
particles.]

[Footnote 66: Probably a sort of stir-about, or hasty-pudding, made of
rye-flour.]

[Footnote 67: In another deposition it is thus expressed, 'lyk a _pow
or feadge_.' A _feadge_ was a sort of _scone_, or roll, of a pretty
large size. Perhaps this term signifies, as large as the quantity of
dough or paste necessary for making this kind of bread.]

[Footnote 68: A flayed sucking pig, after being scalded and scraped.]

[Footnote 69: Shrivelled with the heat.]

[Footnote 70: Red like a coal.]

[Footnote 71: Each alternate day.]

[Footnote 72: Knew.]

[Footnote 73: It is written _meall_ in the other Confession; and the
metre (s