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"etymology_text": "From the Scottish folk tradition that this is the cry that fairies make when they leave a place.",
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"text": "...but one of their number being, it seems, a little more bold and confident than his companion, said Horse and hattock with my top!' and immediately they all saw the top lifted up from the ground, but could not see which way it was carried, by reason of a cloud of dust which was raised at the same time.",
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"ref": "1992, Robert Rankin, The Antipope, page 18",
"text": "Archroy had noticed that his old Morris Minor, which his wife described as 'an eyesore', was no longer upon its blocks in the garage but seemed to have cried horse and hattock and been carried away by the fairies.",
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"text": "I haid a little horse, and wold say, \" Horse and Hattock, in the Divellis name !\"",
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"ref": "2004, Margeret Alice Murray, The God of the Witches",
"text": "Isabel Gowdie of Auldearne in 1662[318] announced that she had two forms of words, one was \"Horse and Hattock in the Devil's name\"; the other was, \"Horse and Hattock! Horse and go! Horse and Pellatis! Ho! Ho!\"",
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"text": "We would fly like straws when we please; wild-straws and com-straws will be horses to us, if we put them between our feet and say, 'Horse and Hattock, in the Devil's name!'",
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