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Cain bairns
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Cain bairns
Cain bairns
or
kain bairns
were
infants
who, according to
Scottish
superstition
, were seized by
warlocks
and
witches
, and paid as a
tax
or
tithe
to the
Devil
.
Càin
is a Gaelic word for a
tribute
, tax or tithe, and is the origin of the
Lowland Scots
term. "
Bairn
" means
child
. The word was in use in the
Scottish Borders
, according to
Walter Scott
's
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
.
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