"Witting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Un—witting, indeed! If that is your idea of unwitting, I should like to know how you would define deliberate intent! I'll forgive you this time, but let me catch you at any of your tricks again, and the fat will be in the fire! Sit down—sit down. It's not often an old bachelor ...
— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey
... what is going on around them. Those spirited away to fairyland may be recovered by their friends or relatives, by performing certain formula, or—and this was often the method resorted to—by out-witting the fairies, getting possession of their stolen friends, and then doing or saying something which fairies cannot bear, upon which they are forced to depart, leaving the ...
— Folk Lore - Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century • James Napier |
