Subject:Stirrups
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Entry 10431
Loops they put feet through in horse's mane. [Those loops made in mane of horse by witch, when she or he rides it at night, are her or his stir- rups. For this horse riding See WITCH RIDES HORSE, PP.141- 143, v.1]. [Somewhere near Princess Anne or Snow Hill, Md., by hand, from informant 102.]
Entry 458
My father had a grey horse at home. He bought him from a very old man and this was his [the old man's] riding horse. Ev'ry morning he would find two little stirrups tied in his mane. The horse wouldn't get fat. Ev'ry morning my father would comb that all out nicely, each night when we get through feeding, and the next morning those two little knots would be tied in there. You would hear the horse groaning and groaning at nighttime. Someone told us that the old man was riding the horse and to turn the horse around the other way in the stall. After that the horse got all right. It was that old man. It was sold in his estate and he didn't want anyone to have it.