Devil as 'ane agit man, beirdit, with a quhyt gown and a thrummit hat'.[1] In 1609, in the Basses-Pyrénées, when the Devil appeared as a goat, 'on luy voit aussi quelque espece de bonet ou chapeau au dessus de ses cornes.'[2] The Alloa Coven in 1658 spoke of 'a man in broun clathis and ane blak hat'; and on two occasions of 'a young man with gray cloathis and ane blew cap'.[3] In 1661 Janet Watson of Dalkeith 'was at a Meitting in Newtoun-dein with the Deavill, who had grein cloathes vpone him, and ane blak hatt vpone his head'.[4] Five members of the Coven at Crook of Devon in 1662 spoke of the Devil's head-gear: 'Sathan was in the likeness of a man with gray cloathes and ane blue bannet, having ane beard. Ane bonnie young lad with ane blue bonnet. Ane uncouth man with black clothes with ane hood on his head. Sathan had all the said times black coloured cloathes and ane blue bonnet being an unkie like man. Ane little man with ane blue bonnet on his head with rough gray cloathes on him.'[5] In 1662 in Connecticut Robert Sterne saw 'two black creatures like two Indians, but taller';[6] as he was at a little distance it is probable that he took a plumed or horned head-dress to be the same as the Indian head-gear. In Belgium in 1664 Josine Labyns saw the Devil wearing a plumed hat.[7] In Somerset in 1665 Mary Green said that when he met the witches 'the little Man put his hand to his Hat, saying How do ye, speaking low but big'.[8] At Torryburn Lilias Adie said that the light was sufficient to 'shew the devil, who wore a cap covering his ears and neck'.[9] In Sweden in 1670 the Devil came 'in a gray Coat, and red and blue Stockings, he had a red Beard, a high-crown'd Hat, with Linnen of divers colours wrapt about, and long Garters upon his Stockings'.[10] At Pittenweem in 1670 the young lass Isobel Adams saw the Devil as 'a man in black cloaths with a hat on his head, sitting at the table 'in Beatty Laing's house.[11]
- ↑ Spalding Club Misc., i, p. 127.
- ↑ De Lancre, Tableau, p. 68.
- ↑ Scottish Antiquary, ix, pp. 50, 51.
- ↑ Pitcairn, iii, p. 601.
- ↑ Burns Begg, pp. 221, 223, 234, 235, 239.
- ↑ Taylor, p. 81.
- ↑ Cannaert, p. 60.
- ↑ Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 164.
- ↑ Chambers, iii, p. 298.
- ↑ Glanvil, pt. ii, p. 316.
- ↑ Sinclair, p. lxxxix.
