[37] [Illustration: Clyfrigrcype], or _the rocky district_.
[38] Col-dwr, or _narrow water_. See Whitaker's etymology of the word
(_Hist. of Manchester_).
[39] See an able article on this subject in the _Retrospective Review_,
vol. v. part i.
[40] "On Christmas daie at night, a threed must be sponne of flax, by a
little virgine girl, in the name of the divell; and it must be by her
woven, and also wrought with the needle. On the breste or fore part
thereof must be made, with needlework, two heads; on the head of the
right side must be a hat, and a long beard,--the left head must have on
a crown, and it must be so horrible that it maie resemble Belzebub; and
on each side of the wastcote must be made a crosse."--_Discoverie of
Witchcraft_, by Reginald Scott, 1584.