Note 185 — Chapter X · Witchcraft. (continued 2)
Reading edition
From Miss E. Chepmell.
See an incident somewhat similar in Chambers’ Popular Rhymes of Scotland, in the tale of Sir James Ramsay, of Bamff.
See also Suzet’s Veillées Bretonnes, Comte de Cocherard et Turquin, p. 258, and Folk-Lore Record, Vol. III., part 1., p. 40.
Editor’s Note.—This story is also told in Folk-Lore of Guernsey and Sark, by Louisa Lane-Clarke (2nd Edition, 1890, p. 24). She makes certain alterations in the narrative and her version of the cure for the Princess is:—“If they cut a small square of bacon from just over the heart, tied it to a silken thread, and made the Princess swallow it, then jerked it up again, the hair would stick to it, and come away from her heart, and she would recover.”
On the 16th May, 1900, the late Mrs. Murray-Aynsley read a paper on “Guernsey Folk-Lore,” to the Folk-Lore Society of England, and she also quoted this story, evidently taken from Mrs. Lane-Clarke’s version, only told in slightly different words.