Scottish Witch

“Looking like a witch” is a proverb that has been always descsiptive of the most exquisite ugliness; and whoever
has seen the frontispiece of a Highland witch will be satisded with its foice and propriety. The face is so wrinkled, that it commonly resembles the channels
of dried waters, and the colour of it resembles nothing so much as a piece rough tanned leather.

The eyes are small and piercing, sunk into the forehead, like the expiring remains of a candle in a socket. The nose is large, prominent, and sharp, forming a bridge to the contacting chin. These are represented as the amiable features of a witch.

The wizard’s appearance differs very little from that of his amiable sister the witch, only that his face is covered over with a preternatural redundance of hair, and that he wears beneath his chin a bunch of hair in the manner of a goat.

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