Date: 2022-02-05 04:20 pm (UTC)
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'The Horny' - appears as a name for (at least in the historical context of the time) the Devil, in Mitchison's The Bull Calves, in Kirstie's ?hallucinations of being part of a witches' coven. OED gives 'Auld Hornie' as Scottish dialect (sourced to Burns) for the Devil, which fits.
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