Do you know any scary stories,uburban legands or anything like that if u do please tell?

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Do you know any scary stories,uburban legands or anything like that if u do please tell?

Answer 1

THE FAIRY DOCTRESS

There used to be a wise old woman living near St. John's, who was making charms against witchcraft, and curing many things with herbs and charms. There was a couple that had been married many years, but had no family, and they were getting old at the time when a young couple went to live with them. When their first baby was born, the young wife was nearly out of her mind, for she saw this childless woman coming to the bedside times in the night, and pulling the baby away from her. She got her husband to lie the floor side but she was little better; so the man consulted this wise old woman, and she went to gather some herbs, and when she came back she said it was the woman living in the house with them, and that she did not wish them any harm, but that she coveted the baby, that was the cause of her spirit coming in the night, when her body was asleep, and she did not know anything about it. The fairy woman gave him some herbs, and told him to boil them a certain time, and wash the baby in some of the water, and to sprinkle the mother and the bed with some of the water, and then to empty the whole of the water and herbs that remained in a running stream, and he did all she told him to do and the mother and child got on very well, and she never saw the woman coming to the bedside nor pulling the baby away after that.

CHARM TO PROTECT HORSE AND PLOUGH.

The old farmers — now very long ago — the first day they were taking the horses out to plough, used to get a bucket of Chemerly (Chamberlye, or mooin), and put some hen's dung in it, and stir it for some time, and then sprinkle the horses and the plough with it. That was the charm against witchcraft and the evil eye.

THE CABBYL USHTEY.

The Cabbyl Ushtey, or Water Kelpie, or Water Wraith, and the Each Uisge of the Western Highlands, was a creature that was thought to be of an amphibious nature, inhabiting deep pools, rivers, and lakes, and believed to be the " foul thief" himself. At times be appears to the belated traveller on the lonesome road, and invites him by various allurements to mount him, when he rushes off into the curraghs,. or stream, and carries the rider to his death. To catch and overpower him you have to cast over his head a bridle, as Harper* sings: —

Stout Samson hands the magic tether,

Stuck round wi' sprigs o' holy Yarrow,

Woodbine, an' rawntree, an' rosemary ;

Wi' hern fern frae the ditches,

Emetics dire for deils and witches;

And now they draw a circle round him,

And wi' some potent speeches sound him.

In Scotland he turned into an old man with long grey hair and beard.+ In the Island he is known besides as the night horse (cabbyl ny hole), and appears invariably in the shape of a gray colt or horse. It is this colour which has led the Manx to call him also the Glashtin, derived from glas=gray. In consequence he is often confused with the Glashan, who has absolutely nothing to do with the water horse. Here are some of his reported lurking-places

At Surby, where be generally makes for the Curraghs, his supposed headquarters.

At Ballure Glen, near Ramsey.

His transformation into a gray man or woman, as in Scotland, has not been noticed in the Island, and further local instances of his occurrence are very desirable.

In Sweden, the vulgar are afraid of his power. There he is called the Nekr, or Vatna Hestr, and ferrymen warn those who are crossing dangerous places in some rivers never to so much as mention his name, lest they should meet with a storm and be in danger of losing their lives In these places formerly, during the times of paganism, those who sailed, worshipped Nekr, their sea deity, as it were, with a sacred silence for the reasons already given, for he exercised his dominion over the wind and waves.** This I may remark, in passing, may account for the absolute interdiction observed by the Manx fishermen to whistle while out at sea.

Answer 2

No, but I need the 2 points.

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