While the witches caroused the younger brother secured the magic bridle, converted the witch herself into a horse, rode home, and before taking off the bridle took the horse to a smithy and put on four shoes. Next day an old woman of the neighbourhood was found with her feet and hands horribly mangled. Campbell notes the same tale is common with small variations.
Witchcraft
The Witch with the Bridle, Lorn
Lorn, Argyll
Recorded 1902
- Evidence
- Long-standing local tradition
- Access
- Access unrecorded
- Location
- 56.400, -5.400 (Parish-level only, treat as an area)
Sources: John Gregorson Campbell, Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland (1902), Project Gutenberg [public-domain]
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