St. Mungo's reference

[pippin_999]

I came across these lines in the old Walter Scott tale "The Two 
Drovers"
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"Robin Oig is no the man to leave any of them without tying St. 
Mungo's knot on their tails, and that will put to her speed the best 
witch that ever flew over Dimayet upon a broomstick."

It may not be indifferent for the reader to know that the Highland 
cattle are peculiarly liable to be *taken*, or infected, by spells
and  witchcraft; which judicious people guard against by knitting 
knots of peculiar complexity on the tuft of hair which terminates 
the animal's tail.
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In the same story Scott also quotes an old ballad, Duke Upon 
Duke
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Were ever two such loving friends--
How could they disagree?
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Which sounds a bit like the Sorting Hat's song in OOP. Duke 
upon Duke is a comic mock heroic ballad, but Two Drovers is a 
tragic tale of vengeance and murder. Which makes me wonder, 
what did happen to old Salazar? Did Godric do him in?

Pippin