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sionnach commented on the word kain-bairns
Kain-bairns, says a note in Sir Walter Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border," were infants, according to Scottish superstition, that were seized in their cradles by warlocks and witches, and paid as a Icain, or tax, to their master the devil.
April 25, 2009