Note 177 — THE ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY OF BUCK-HAVEN.
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The people of Buckhaven seem to have been free from the old superstition regarding the horse-shoe charm. A horse-shoe nailed to a stable door kept the four-footed inmates free from the power of ‘uncanny’ beings. The custom still lingers in the country, but it is due more to use and wont than any active belief in its virtues.