According to a the February 6, 1919 rush of the Boston Make known, a Instant Cod man was cursed by a intimate getting on witch whilst he wrap some of her doughnuts. She devised a magic bridle, and rode him in his thoughts wish a show jumper until he was thin. Kittredge claims he heard a akin story himself from a Truro unpretentious in 1888. If the story comes from two untangle sources, it requirement be true!
There's a akin story from Kittery, Maine about a group of witches (and their familiars) who rode a fisherman wish a show jumper whilst he refused to offer one of them a bit of halibut. The bridle was ready of show jumper hair, yew bark, and tow strike, and was found years consequent intermediate the defenses of an old abode that was having the status of untidy down. It was burned by the workmen who bare it. (This story comes from Herbert Sylvester's Maine Originator Settlements: Old York, quoted in A Treasure chest of New England Tradition, shortened by B.A. Botkin.)
