The folk in the West of Scotland, where she resided after her marriage, did not know of her previous involvement with Sir John Fall and when she absconded with Johnie Faa when he came through from the East, in the guise of a gypsy, they assumed he had "cast the glamourie oure her o" with his song, as an explanation for her strange conduct.

Richie.
Names and dates are all as given by me in a previous thread and can be checked in the historical records of the families involved.

Note 1----there was a letter found, from the 17th.C Earl of Cassilles to the Earl of Eglinton, which completely rules out the usual historical explanation given with this ballad as having taken place in the first part of the 17th. C.

Note 2----Fall, Hall etc. are to this day pronounced, by speakers of Scots, as Faa, Haa etc. here in the West of Scotland