P's said to have been first settlers in Orkney and Shetland, 59, 104.
Their small boats, 59, 178-179.
Their dwarfish stature, 58-60, 65.
Their great strength, 60, 66-7, 74.
Their mounds or underground houses, 58-66, 77-78.
Their method of building, 67.
White Cater Thun, Brechin Tower, Abernethy Tower, Glasgow Cathedral, Dunstanborough Castle, the Catrail, the Wall of Hadrian, and many old castles, popularly believed to have been built by P's, 67-74, 99-100.
Their last stronghold in Galloway, 99.
P's, or Gallowaymen, at the Battle of the Standard, 69-70n.
P's popularly regarded as magicians and supernatural beings, 53, 79-80, 99.
P's associated with Feens, 51, 64-5;
with Fions, Feins, and Fairies of Brittany, 85;
and with a Danish "hill-man," 85-86n.
P's as serfs or drudges, 67-74, 76.
P's identified by J. F. Campbell with Lapps and Fairies, 96.
P's and King Arthur, 143n.
Hairiness of P's, 157-8.
Their swiftness of foot, 177.

Pict or Pecht-land, 52, 68-73.

Pixies of Cornwall and Devon, 162.

"Pucks" of Sylt, 87.


Red-caps.
In Sylt, 87.
In Lincolnshire 107n.
(See also 129n and 142.)

Reindeer in Scotland, 96-97.

Ringerike, Norway, 40-2.

Rona, Hebrides, and its "pirates," 29.

Ronaldshay (North), 41.

Ross-shire;
in 17th century, 29-30, 45;
a legendary mound in, 112.

Samoyeds.
Bergen Strils conjectured to have linguistic affinity with S., 7n.
Skin-boats of S., 18.
Savages:
Orkney Finnmen spoken of as S., 10, 30-31.
Certain Hebrideans referred to as S., 28, 29, 31.
Strathnaver people in 1658 "barbarous," 30.
Term "Hottentot" applied to traditional builders in Mid-Lothian, 71.

Sea-Folk.
Their inter-marriages with land-folk:—
In Shetland, 1-5, 15;
in Hebrides, 15;
in Ireland, 2, 15;
in Isle of Man, 15;
in Wales, 2, 15.
Mer-women as wives and mothers of land-folk, 1-5, 13, 15.

Seal-men and Selkie-wives, 1-5, 12, 13, 15n, 34n.

Seelie court, The, 97.

Seffister, Shetland, and its "trow's door," 59.

Shag-boys, hog-boys, or how-folk, 107.

Shaggy Men.
Pechts, 157-8;
Traditional dwarfs generally, 158-164;
Ainos of Japan, 166 et seq.

Sheeans or Sitheanan. (See Mounds.)

Shetland.
Dwarf abodes in S., 59, 102-3, 106.
Picts early inhabitants of S., 104.
(See also Finns of S.)

Shool Skerry, or Sule Skerry, 3, 34n.

Sithe-folk. (See also Fairies.)
Sidhe and Tshud, 89-90.
Seid-men, 90-91.
Worship of S., 92.
S. of North of Ireland and Munster, 93.
Identified with Dananns, 126.
Associated with Feens, 128-9.
Former high rank, 132.

Skin-boats:
"Sea-skin or seal-skin" of Shetland Finns, 1-5, 8.
Kayaks of Orkney Finnmen, 5-11, 18-19.
Skin-boats of Iberians, Hebrideans, Irish, Welsh, Scotch, Samoyeds, Skraelings, Eskimos, Mandans, 8, 12-13, 18-22.
Fin's skin-boat, 55-6.
Skin-boat of Picts, 178-9.
Skin-boat of North American "Lapps" or "Skraelings," 7, Appendix B.

Skraelings, 7, Appendix B.

Smiths, Underground:
The "Noble Smith" and his chambered mound, 132-4;
Wayland Smith's chambered mound, 132n;
Smiths working in "cave" of Cruachan, 136;
German traditional idea of such people, 163-4.

Stronsay, Orkney.
Finnman seen there about year 1700, 6.


Teith valley.
Mounds of, 114.
Assumed to be the "vallis" referred to by Gildas, as traversed by the Picts, 178n.

Thorpe, Lincolnshire; shag-boys at, 107n.

Thoten, Norway, 40-2.

Tialdasund, Norway, 21.

Tienen, Netherlands; dwarfs of, 86.

Tombuidhe Ghearrloch;
a reputed chambered mound, 112.

Trows, Trolls, or Trollmen. (See Dwarfs.)

Tshuds, 89-90.


Ugrians. (See Finns, Lapps, Skraelings, etc.)

Uist, Hebrides 29.

Ulster.
Feens of, 76, 93;
Cruithne or Picts of, 93;
skin-boats of, 18.
(See also Eamhain.)

Underground Chambers. (See also Mounds.)
Indications, apart from those of tradition, that these were dwelling-places, 101-2, 113 (fire-place).

Underground galleries, not having mounds over them, 101-4.

Unst, Shetland, 106.

Ur-uisg, or Water-man, 142n, 158-164, 178-9.

Urus. (See Bugle.)


Valas, or Völvas, 90-2.

Villenshaw: (?) a locality in Orkney, 105.


Walpurgis Night. (See Beltin.)

Weems. (See Mounds and Underground galleries.)

Westray, Orkney.
Finnman seen near W. circa 1700, 5, 6, 33-4;
Fairies said to be seen at Fitty Hill circa 1700, 33;
defeat of Hebrideans at Fitty Hill, 33.

Wideford Hill, Orkney; chambered mound at, 62.

Witchcraft. (See Magic.)


Yorkshire tradition as to "supernatural" labourers at Mulgrave and Pickering Castles, 86, 100.


Zee-Woners. (See Sea-Folk.)