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Then there was Ol'Hige, a wicked witch who shed her skin and took the form of an owl or bat. She entered homes and sucked out the breath and blood from little children. To prevent this happening, the skin had to be found and sprinkled with salt and pepper while the words, 'salt an' pepper fe yu mumma' are intoned.
When Ol'Hige returned to inhabit her skin she would find that the mixture of salt and pepper burnt her. She would plead: "Skin, yu mus' know me," but her plea would be ignored. In her naked state she could then be killed and the breath and blood she had stolen from the child would be returned and the child would live.See the full content of this document
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The Fears of Youth
IN THE village of my youth, older boys frightened us - the young ones - with stories of death and duppies and other tales of the unknown.
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