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Resting threid. (? A confusion between Resting vbl. n.1 and wresting, see wresting threde a wresting thread.) — 1613 Rec. Shetl. MS in Dalyell Darker Superst. 118.
[Garth in Yell suffered from] ane great fever and lyghtnes in his head that he could get no rest nor sleip in somer 1613 … [There was] ane woman in Delting … quha culd give him ane resting threid. … She tuik ane woll threid and vsit certane crossis and coniurationes upoun it. She gave it to hir dochter to be given to … Garth to be woone [sic in pr.] about his head nyne nyghtis and then to be burnt: quhairby Garth gat rest
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