It was only the female goblins that would change themselves into night MARES and sit on the body of the dreamer.
"Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks"
William Elliot Griffis
The whole thing was conducted in a very orderly manner by M. La Miche, who on horseback drew up the rear of this immense cavalcade composed of some two hundred white oxen, hitched two abreast, seventy or eighty horses, as many MARES with young colts, and heaven knows how many cows and calves; all accompanied by the stable bands.
"My Home In The Field of Honor"
Frances Wilson Huard
But which constitutes the greater atrocity,-to use men and women as "stallions" and "brood MARES," or to speak or print the damning deed?
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch