GLOSSARY.

(1) SIC, such.
(2) Haud, hold.

(3) Kuest hir heart. When people are afflicted with consumptive complaints in Zetland, they ima. gine that the heart of the person so affected has been wasted away by the enchantment of the fairies, or witchcraft of some other evil beings. Old women, and sometimes men, profess to cure this disease. The patient must undergo the following curious and ridiculous operation: the patient is placed, sitting upon the bottom of a large cooking pot, turned upon its mouth; a large pewter dish is placed, or held, upon his head; upon the dish a bason or bowl is set nearly full of cold water; into this water the operator pours some melted lead through the teeth of a common dressing comb *; all this is performed with many strange incantations and gesticulations. If the lead falls into a shapeless lump, they declare that the heart and the lungs of the patient are completely wasted away, that they will have infinite trouble,

A large key is also employed in this operation.

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and perhaps, after all, will not be able to bring back the heart and lungs to their natural and healthful form. The lead is again melted, and run into the water through the teeth of the comb; it most likely assumes some shape, which the operator assures the spectators is the exact form of the patient's heart in its diseased state. The lead is repeatedly melted, and poured through the comb into the water; every time it is asserted to be more and more like the natural heart and lungs, and the bewitchment, of course, is rendered weaker and weaker. The patient undergoes this three times, with some days between each operation. When the last cast of the lead is over, the operator shews it round, and points out how exactly every part of the heart and the lungs are restored to their natural and proper shape; if the patient dies (perhaps his death is hurried on by the fatigue and agitation occasioned by this mummery), his death is ascribed to some oversight in the strict performance of all the relative parts of this easting of the heart *. The moon must be at a certain age, and it must be performed at a certain turning of the tide and hour of the night; numberless other things must be attended to. The operator will take any thing they please to give, if it should be the half of all their goods and chattels, but he must not touch money. He appoints, however, a parti eular place, where a Danish coin, worth fivepenče, current

The patient must also wear the lead, which has been used, in his bosom, for some time after the operation.

current in Zetland, is to be laid (as many as they like the more the better, no doubt); this money is for the fairies, who come, it is asserted, and take it away; but the poor honest operator must not, and will not finger it, otherwise his trouble would come to nought, and the spell which bound the patient would be firmer than ever. This operation of casting the heart is performed to this day in some parts of the Zetland Isles, and implicit belief placed in its efficacy.

(4) Leet. Never leet, means never hearken to it, or appear to hear it.

(5) Dulefu', woful.

(6) Ding aff, knock off.

(7) Mi, my.

(8) Ill, bad.

(9) Hoose, house.

(10) Snaw, snow.

(11) Hantle, a great deal.

(12) Ir, are.

(13) This turn, this time.

(14) Ilunner, hundred.

(15) Ting, thing.

(16) Anither, another.

(17) Ahint, behind.

(18) Doit, a small coin, value one-eighth of a penny.

(19) Dochter, daughter.

(20) Gloaming, twilight.

(21) Scaith, harm.

(27) Thrang signifies that something is going on of a private nature, as—“ They are owr thrang, they are plotting some mischief.”

(28) Ju, a sweetheart.

(29) ▲, all.

(30) No canny. To be canny, means to be shrewd and cunning. To be no canny, signifies to be suspected of witchcraft.

(31) Wooer, lover.

(32) Kenin, knowing.

(33) Kap, wooden bowl or bason.

(34) Daffick, wooden vessels for holding water.

(35) Jammelled, shook, agitated.

(36) Raired, roared.

(37) Whummelled, upset.

(38) Upsetten, upsetting.

(39) Sank, sunk.

(40) Oy, a grandchild..

(41) Craws, crows.

(42) Laughin, laughing.

(43) Out o' a' case, to be distressed or disordered to a very great degree.

(44) Browny, boky, or trow, wandering spirits. (45) floken. To be hoken is to have a look of hunger and great poverty.

(46) Heart-brak, severe and bitter sorrow, fres
quently applied to the last struggles of a dying per-

son.

(47) Coft, bought.

(48) Hockit, dug.
(49) Fule, fool.

(50) Loshens, interjection, common among the
Jower orders of people in Zetland.

(51) Lout, stoop or bend.

(52) Lug, ear.

(53) Steek, stitch.

(54) Forsemore, disappointment.

(56) Sour fish. See (182) Vol. I.

(57) Vivda. The Zetlanders used to hang up
mutton in the place built for drying fish, called a
skoe; it was without salt, and rendered quite hard
and dry; in this state it was called vivda, and es-
teemed a very delicate morsel.

(59) Kale, cabbage.

(60) Burstan broonies. See (12) Vol. F.

(61) Haaf-fish. The fish got at the summer fish-
ing, which is called the Haaf-fishing.

(62) Feigh! faugh!

(63) Air, smell.

(64) War, aware.

(65) Ony thing, any thing..

(66) Warse, worse.

(67) Wilks, periwinkles.

(68) Lempucks, limpets.

(69) Sillic, a small fish taken in immense numbers
on the Zetland coast; men, women, and children,

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