Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland
vi. Three years since, or thereby, James Ailhows, having been a long
time in her service, Janet desired him to continue with her, and on his refusing, 'Gang where you please,' she said, 'I will see that you do not earn a single cake of bread for a year and a day.' And as soon as he quitted her service, he was seized with an extremely heavy sickness and (wodnes) delirium, with a continual burning heat and cold sweating, and lay bedfast half a year, according to her promise, through the devilish witchcraft she had cast upon him. So that he was compelled to send to Benia for another witch to take the witchcraft from him: who came to this town and washed him in water _running south_, and put him through a girth, with some other ceremonies that she used. And he paid her seventeen marks, and by her help recovered health again.