...was a critic in substantives, verbs, and particles. In my infant and boyish days, too, I owed much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...kelpies, elfcandles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraps, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of...

...age I was a critic in substantives, verbs and particles. In my infant and boyish days too, I owe much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elk-candles, deathlights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, enchanted towers, giants, dragons and other...

...he writes in the letter to Doctor Moore already quoted, "I owed much to an old maid of my mother's, remarkable for her ignorance, credulity, and superstition....elf-candles, deadlights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, enchanted towers, giants, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of Poesy ;...

...of old wives' tales as would scare any child into fits on a dark night. Hear Burns speak of her : " She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of...

...by the stories of Jennie Wilson, an old woman who lived in the family, and whose astonishing store of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions and the like, ceased to be provincial and 42 In the town of Ayr itself one may still see that other...

...supplemented by the stories of Jenny Wilson, an old woman who lived in the family, and whose astonishing store of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions and the like, ceased to be provincial and local, but became universal and eternal when touched by the...

...ignorance, credulity, and superstition,' who had, ' I suppose, the largest collection in the county of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies,...witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elfcandles, death-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantraips, enchanted towers, giants, dragons, and other trumpery....

...the material of his inspiration to B an old woman who resided with the family in his childhood : " She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of...

...early childhood was made by one Jenny Wilson, of whom Burns wrote twenty years after: " I owe much to an old woman who resided in the family, remarkable...giants, enchanted towers, dragons and other trumpery." Burns himself has testified that her tales " cultivated the latent seeds of poetry; but had so strong...

...of old wives' tales as would scare any child into fits on a dark night. Hear Burns speak of her : " She had, I suppose, the largest collection in the...kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, cantrips, giants, enchanted towers, dragons, and other trumpery. This cultivated the latent seeds of...