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Lancashire, iii., 638; Harland and Wilkinson's
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Lancashire Folklore,
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In our own country, such compacts were generally made at midnight in some lonely churchyard, or amid the ruins of some castle. But fortunately for mankind, by resorting to spells and counterspells the binding effects of these
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The Dule upo' Dun, which means
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The Devil upon Dun (horse). The story runs that a poor tailor sold himself to Satan for seven years on his granting him certain wishes, after which term, according to the contract, signed, as is customary, with the victim's own blood, his soul was to become
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When the fatal day arrived, on the advice of his wife, he consulted
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in his extremity. At last the hour came when the Evil One claimed his victim, who tremblingly contended that the contract was won from him by fraud and dishonest pretences, and had not been fulfilled. He even ventured to hint at his lack of power to bestow riches, or any great gift, on which Satan was goaded into granting him another wish.
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Then, said the trembling tailor,
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I wish thou wert riding back again to thy quarters on yonder dun horse, and never able to plague me again, or any other poor wretch whom thou has gotten into thy clutches!
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The Dule upo' Dun. On it was depicted
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Old Hornie mounted on a scraggy dun horse, without saddle or bridle,
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viewed his departure with anything but grief or disapprobation.[34] The authors of
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Lancashire Legends, describing this old house, inform us that it was