he cried, And fell into the arms of grim old Ule, Who pierced his own soul when he wounded him.

Squier, who witnessed the ceremonies on an occasion of this kind, says that males and females were dressed in ule cloaks fantastically painted black and white, while their faces were correspondingly streaked with red and yellow, and they performed a slow walk around, prostrating themselves at intervals and calling loudly upon the dead and tearing the ground with their hands.

Oil, in common Scotch, used always to be ule,as the uley pot, or uley cruse (Fr. huile).