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The Golden Bough, Vol. 01 of 12

Note 1167 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER (continued 2)

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J. Scheffer, Lapponia (Frankfort, 1673), p. 144; J. Train, Account of the Isle of Man, ii. 166; Miss C. F. Gordon Cumming, In the Hebrides, pp. 254 sq.; Ch. Rogers, Social Life in Scotland, iii. 220; Sir W. Scott, Pirate, note to ch. vii.; Miss M. Cameron, in Folklore, xiv. (1903) pp. 301 sq. Compare Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 3, line 11. “But, my loving master, if any wind will not serve, then I wish I were in Lapland, to buy a good wind of one of the honest witches, that sell so many winds there and so cheap” (Izaac Walton, Compleat Angler, ch. v.).

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