Note 10 — CHRONICLES OF BORDER WARFARE (continued 7)

Superstition was rife among the Scotch-Irish borderers. McWhorter writes: “On the day before the capture, a little bird came into Mrs. Cunningham’s cabin and fluttered around the room. Ever afterwards, she grew frightened whenever a bird would enter her house. The fear that such an occurrence would bring bad luck to a household, was an old and widely-spread superstition.”––R. G. T.