Note 791 — Chapter IV
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Footnote 791
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John Graham Dalyell, The Darker Superstitions of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1834), p. 185. In this passage "quick" is used in the old sense of "living," as in the phrase "the quick and the dead." Nois is "nose," hoill is "hole," quhilk (whilk) is "which," and be is "by."