horse and hattock

感叹词 intj.

英文释义

感叹词 intj.
  1. A call that invokes the fairies to transport someone or something.
    — ...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.
  2. An incantation used in witchcraft in order to fly.
    — I haid a little horse, and wold say, " Horse and Hattock, in the Divellis name !"

词源

From the Scottish folk tradition that this is the cry that fairies make when they leave a place.
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