The Banff anti-conjurer

In Banffshire a few years before, Hone’s source said, witches were still thought to ride broomsticks, dance on the water of Avon, steal milk and make fields barren. Against them the county had an anti-conjurer, consulted for bewitched husbands, sickness, madness and lost cattle. He sprinkled water through the house and always found little parcels of mice’s legs and bats’ wings hidden in the walls, which he blamed on the witches. In this way, the writer noted drily, he made a living for himself and his family.