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  • 'At which time she confessed that this Geillis Duncane did goe before them playing this reill or daunce upon a small trumpe called a Jew's trump, until they entered into the kirk of North Barrick.'

    Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856

  • After the Devil's mark is found on her she confesses that she went to sea with two hundred others in sieves to the kirk of North Berwick in East Lothian, and after they had landed they 'took handes on the lande and daunted, this reill or short daunce, saying all with one voice:

    Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856

  • At which time she confessed, that this _Geilles Duncane_ did goe before them playing this reill or daunce vpon a small Trump, called a Iewes

    Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

  • Ciue, and went in the same very substantially with Flaggons of wine making merrie and drinking by the waye in the same Riddles or Ciues, to the Kerke of North Barrick in Lowthian, and that after they had landed, tooke handes on the land and daunced this reill or short daunce, singing all with one voice.

    Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

  • "At which time, she confessed that this Geilles Duncan (a servant girl) did goe before them, playing this reill or daunce uppon a small _trumpe_ called a _Jews-trumpe_, until they entred into the Kirk of North Barrick.

    Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850 Various

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