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Thread #9540   Message #62150
Posted By: Bruce O.
09-Mar-99 - 09:16 PM
Thread Name: Irish & Scottish Fiddle Music Books?
Subject: RE: Irish & Scottish Fiddle Music Books?
If you look at history, you see that witch trials stopped about the time the fiddle started to became popular in Scotland, but the Devil appears in several 18th century tune titles (and witches in a few. See CNTYDAN2 and SCOTTUNS files on my website). "The Devil on Two Sticks" is a tune and a chapbook tale, and from the chapbook illustration we see that the two sticks are crutches.