The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland

Chapter 2: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COUNTESS OF SEAFIELD.

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A systematic collection of Highland oral traditions, superstitions, and seasonal entertainments, describing beliefs about fairies, ghosts, household spirits, charms, omens, and folklore, and documenting dances, games, songs, and communal winter pastimes. The author records variants, local customs, and explanatory remarks, situating these practices within changing social conditions and arguing for preserving them before they fade under increased external influence. The work combines first-hand testimonies, language notes, and commentary to present an ethnographic portrait of rural Highland popular culture.

LONDON:
JOHN KING, PRINTER, 120, FLEET STREET.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE COUNTESS OF SEAFIELD.

This new Edition of the Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland is humbly and appropriately dedicated:—as being the Lady Patroness of the Brave and Intelligent Highlanders of Strathspey, and its Tributaries, into whom her Ladyship’s genuine benevolence and condescension have infused the most devoted attachment,

By her Ladyship’s

Grateful humble servant,

THE AUTHOR.

Viewville, Glen Urquhart,
June, 1851.