The tinkler-gypsies . d that shewould marry a man of the same name as him-self (Campbell), and how by a remarkablecoincidence his |)rophecy had come true. Thenshe added that a flat-fitted or a shan-ivinklered(bad-eyed) body was most unlucky, and relatedthis story :— A flat-fitted woman yince first-fitted my mither on New Years day morning;the mare foaled on the 24th May; it was kickedto death by a horse in the field a few days efter,and the foal didna survive it mony days ! Frequently has the writer heard of the deathof animals accounted for in that way. Oncehe heard a tale that shows the elas
The tinkler-gypsies . d that shewould marry a man of the same name as him-self (Campbell), and how by a remarkablecoincidence his |)rophecy had come true. Thenshe added that a flat-fitted or a shan-ivinklered(bad-eyed) body was most unlucky, and relatedthis story :— A flat-fitted woman yince first-fitted my mither on New Years day morning;the mare foaled on the 24th May; it was kickedto death by a horse in the field a few days efter,and the foal didna survive it mony days ! Frequently has the writer heard of the deathof animals accounted for in that way. Oncehe heard a tale that shows the elasticityof the Tinklers belief in superstitions : InWigtownshire an old woman with a gleyeye had looked at a Tinklers bairn. TheTinklers were travelling towards child cried all the way to Dumfries, whenanother old woman looked at the child,and at once said— That wean has beenowerlookit. She advised them to take itback to the first old woman, but the motherbeing a Catholic took it to the priest, and. Dirk Hatteraicks Cave, Ravenshall. From a Painting Mr James Faei, sair., taken by the aid of a flambeau withinthe interior of the Cave upwanls of forty years ago. ii8 The Thikler-Gypsies. the father being a Protestant beat the wifeunmercifully, as they still seem to think the\-are entitled to do, like the chief of the hordewho acknowledged he had corrected her ( MegMerrilies) with a whinger. The husbandgot hs own way, and took the child to the firstold woman to withdraw the spell she had castover the child. The Tinklers had not longleft her when the wean a at yince drappitgreetin, and the mare, lang by her time, at thesame meenit drapt a foal I So the Tinklersof to-day cling to many of the traits ascribedto Meg Merrilies. Tradition has it that Flora, one of Billysmany dulcineas, whose maiden name appearsto have been Ploia Maxwell, was so verytransparently fair of the complexion that onecould see a glass of (red) wine go down herthroat. Mr David MacRitchie, in
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