A wife was sitting at her reel ae night;
And aye she sat, and aye she reeled, and aye she wished for company…
Sadie Stein recalls “The Strange Visitor” – an eerie Scots tale. Performed well it should cause “a scream of alarm”
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/01/16/the-stranger/
#Scottish #literature #Halloween #19thcentury #folklore #poem #poetry #performance
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