Aagerup, Denmark:
reputed chambered mound near, 155.

Aberfoyle, Perthshire:
reputed chambered hill at, 152-3.

Abernethy, Perthshire:
Round Tower of, said to have been built by Pechts, 67, 86.
A. district a former territory of the Pechts, 150.

Ainos:
A dwarfish race, 165;
their past history, 165-6;
their characteristic hairiness, 166-172;
their platycnemism, 176;
their speed, 177;
their "short, screeching" cry, 168;
A's. make use of reindeer, moccasins, "skies," and harpoons, all of which show affinity of custom, if not of blood, with Eskimo families, 169-171.

Alaskan, or Aleutian Eskimos, 9n, 22.

All-Hallows. (See Hallowmas.)

Almhain or Allen, Hill of, Kildare:
Fin's dwelling at, 56.

Almhain or Almond, Glen, West Perthshire:
resort of Fians, 77.

Ardmore, Waterford:
Round Tower of, said to have been built in the manner ascribed to the Pechts, 71n.

Argyleshire. (See under Mounds.)

Arthur, and "primitive Britons" or "Pechts," 142-3n.

Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, 143n.

Aschberg, Casterlé, province of Antwerp.
A reputed chambered mound, 86-7, 155.

Ashbury, Berkshire. A chambered mound, 132n.

Auxcriniers of Guernsey tradition, 16, 178.

Baile Thangasdail, Island of Barra:
story of a chambered mound near, 82n, 115.

Ballindalloch (near), Banffshire:
reputed chambered mound, 117.

Beelsby, Lincolnshire:
tradition of dwarfs wearing red caps, 107n.

Beltin.
A Fian date, 94.
A Fairy date, 98.

Ben-cnock, Islay:
reputed chambered mound, 114.

Ben Muich Dhui, Aberdeenshire:
Dwarfs of, 97.

Bergen, Norway:
a celebrated resort of the Shetland Finns, 5, 13:
suzerainty of B. over N.E. Scotland, 37.
The Strils of B., 7n.

Bissau, Aberdeenshire:
reputed chambered mound, 117.

Blackwater, Leinster, 92.

Blackwater, Munster, 92, 127.

Blackwater, East Perthshire, 94-5.

Blackwater, West Perthshire, 152.

Bolg. (See Fir-Bolg.)

Braderup, Sylt:
the Pukthal at, 87.

Brechin, Forfarshire:
Round Tower at B. said to have been built by the Pechts, 72.

Brittany:
church in B. said to have been built by Fairies, 85-6;
Feins or Fions of B., 85.
Broch, Brog, etc., 43n, 61, 77-79.

Broch of Coldoch, Perthshire:
a chambered mound, 119, 149-151, 153.

Brownies, 80, 141-2, 158-164. (See also Fairies, etc.)

Brugh of the Boyne, County Meath, 84, 111, 119-133, 153.

Bugle, Buffalo, or Urus, 80-81n, 95.

Buildings said to have been reared in a single night:
Abernethy Tower, 85-6;
Chapels in Brittany, 85;
Castle of the Gypnissen, 86.

Burray, Orkney. Finnman's boat once preserved there, 6.
All trace of it now lost, 17n.


Canoe. (See Skin-Boat.)
"Dug-out," 31.

Cassiterides. (See Oestrymnic Isles.)

Cater Thun, Forfarshire:
said to be Pictish, 73, 76, 86, 99;
alleged to have been built by a witch, and inhabited by Fairies, 99-100:
a kettle of gold believed to be hidden there, 150n.

Cathair Mhor } Gairloch, Ross-shire: fairy residences, 118.
Cathair Bheag }

"Catrail" in S. of Scotland, said to have been built by Pechts, 67.

Cave-Men:
in Uist, Hebrides, during 17th century, 29.

"Cavern" at Yester, or Gifford, East Lothian, 143.

Chambered Mounds. (See Mounds.)

Chessmen of Walrus Ivory, found in Hebrides, 32, 158n.

Clunie, Perthshire, Castle Hill of:
reputed chambered mound, 145-146.

Clydesdale.
Pecht's house in C., 66;
Glasgow cathedral said to have been built by Pechts, 72;
traditional description of dwarfs of C., 97.

Cnock-doun, Islay:
reputed chambered mound, 114.

Cnoc Fraing, Inverness-shire:
a home of fairies, 146.

Coir-nan-Uruisgean, Perthshire, 151-152.

Coldoch broch, Perthshire, 119, 149-151, 153.

Colonsay, island of:
Macphail of C. and his (?) Finn lover, 15-16;
tradition of dwarfs living in C., 147;
Sithean Mor and Sithean Beag, 147.

Connaught, Fians of, 76, 93.

Corryvreckan, Argyleshire:
The (?) Finn woman of C. and her Colonsay lover, 15-16.

Corstorphine Church, near Edinburgh;
said to have been built by the "Hottentots," 70-71.

Craig Patrick, Inverness-shire, 149.

Craig y Ddinas, Glamorganshire, 143n.

Crocan Corr, Kilbrandon, Argyleshire:
reputed chambered mound, 114.

Cromar, Aberdeenshire;
underground gallery at, 101.

Crown, Inverness, 149n.

Cruachan rath:
re-built by a servile race, 68n, 125n, 136, 152n;
"a party of smiths at work" in its interior, 136.

Cruithne. (See also Picts, etc.)
Were pre-Milesian, 51.
Were connected with the "Lochlin" territory, 51.
Their connection with Feens and Fairies, 128-9.

Cuailgne: Fin's fort on, 75-76.

"Cyclopean" character of Pictish buildings, 73.


Dananns (Tuatha De Danann):
classed with the Cruithne as of Continental origin, and "pre-Milesian" in settling in British Isles; and consequently to be classed with the Fians, 51.
Known also as the Fir Sidhe or Fairies, 126;
account of their rivalry with the Milesians, 124-127;
description of the dwelling assigned to the King of the Dananns, 120-130 and Appendix A.

Danes;
their ravages in the Boyne Valley in 861, when they plundered the underground chambers of the "Fians and Fairies," 81-84.

Danish ballad of dwarfs and colonists, 105-6.

Dartmoor;
its gubbins and pixies, 161-2.

Davis Straits.
Conjectured by some to be the home of the Orkney Finnmen, 7.
Eskimo of D. S. at Leith in 1816, 8, 12.

Deer. (See also Reindeer and Elk.)
Hunted in Glenshee, East Perthshire, by the Fians, 94-5;
"great-beamed" D., 95;
D. milked and used as beasts of burthen, 96.

Denghoog:
chambered mound in Sylt, 87, 112-113, 122.

Denmark. (See also Lochlin.)
Eckwadt church said to have been built by a "hill-man," 85-86n.
(See also "Mounds reputed to be chambered.")

Devonshire, 161-2.

Digh;
an equivalent for sithean, 79n.

Donegal.
Skin-boats used by natives of "The Rosses," 18;
Finn Town, D., 23.

Doon, or Doo'n, of Aberfoyle, 152-154.

Doon of Menteith, 144.

Doon of Rothiemurchus, 144-145.

Dornoch Firth:
Fairies ferried themselves across D. F. in "cockle-shells," 17, 22.

Dowth, or Dubath; chambered mound, 84, 111, 119, 132-3, 137.

Drinnich, or Trinnich, a Gaelic term applied to the Picts, signifying "labourers," 71-72.

Drudges.
Cruachan rath re-built by an enslaved race, 68n, 125n, 136, 152n.
Similar references, 68-74, 151-2.
Gypnissen, 86.

Druids, 125-127.

Dunnan, in Galloway;
a fairy fort, 99.
Dunstanborough Castle, Northumberland, said to have been built by the Picts, 67.

Dwarfs. (See also Pechts or Picts.)
D's of Shetland tradition, otherwise Finns, 56; also 59.
D's of Scottish tradition generally, otherwise Pechts, 58-60;
D's of Highland tradition, 57, 97;
D's of Clydesdale, 97.
D's of Northumberland, 67, 80, 86, 99.
D's of Yorkshire, 100.
D's of Lincolnshire, 107n.
D's of Wales, 160-2.
D's of Cornwall, 162.
D's of Devon, 161-2.
Fin of the Fians a D., 55-56.
D's of Brittany (Fions, etc.), 85.
D's of Antwerp, 86-87.
D's of the Netherlands, 86.
D's of Denmark and Danish tradition, 85-86n, 105-106.
D's of Sylt, 87, 112-113.
D's of Scandinavia, 91.
D's of Germany, 163-4, 172-3.
D's of Greenland and North America, 63.
D's of Japan, 157, 165 et seq.
D's of Africa, 157.
Great bodily strength ascribed to the Scotch Pechts, 72-73;
to the Northumbrian Picts, 67, 73-4;
to the dwarfs of Tienen, in the Netherlands, 86.
D's at war with each other, and with men, 94n.
Green the colour of the D's, 97.
Tribute exacted by the D's, 97.
Magic of the D's, 106.
Hidden treasures of the D's, 107n, 129n, 150n.
D's as serfs or drudges, 151-2.
D's in one aspect civilized, in another savage, 156-7.
Hairiness of skin of D's, 157-164, 169n.


Eamhain, or Eamhna, 49, 133-4.

Eckwadt, Denmark;
residence of a "hill-man" near, 85n.

Eday, Orkney:
Finnman seen there in 1682, 5.

Edinburgh.
Finnman's skiff preserved there 6;
Corstorphine church said to have been built by the "Hottentots," 70-71;
Pecht lands near E., 68-71;
King Arthur and the Pechts believed to have entered a subterranean chamber at Arthur's Seat, 143n.

Eilean Suthainn, Loch Maree;
a fairy resort, 118.

Elk.
Hunted in East Perthshire by the Fians, 94-95;
horns of E. found there, 95;
lon-dubh="black elk," 95.

Erribol, Sutherlandshire:
Weem, Pecht's House, or Fairy Hall at, 101.

Eskimos.
Compared with Shetland Finns, 7-8;
with Pechts, 53, 77-78;
with Finns and Lapps, 53;
with "Skraelings," Appendix B;
with Ainos, 169-171.
E. or Skraeling chambered mounds in Greenland, Labrador, and Massachusetts, 62-4, 77-78, 155, and Appendix B.
Kayaks:
their speed, 8;
feat of oversetting kayak, 12.
Kayakker, at some distance, resembles triton or mer-man, 13.
Open skin-boats of E., 22.
Dwarfish stature of E., 63.
E's of Alaska, 9n, of Greenland, 12-13n, 53, 62-4, 142n.
E. magicians believe they can control the winds, 53, 63.
An E. type in modern Britain, 37-8.

Eu, island, Ross-shire;
a haunt of 17th c. "pirates," 29.

Evie, Orkney:
reputed chambered mounds at, 111n.


Fairies. (See Dananns, Fians, Pechts, Dwarfs, &c.)
F's inhabited the bruth, sith-bhrugh or sheean, otherwise the "Pecht's house," 79.
F's associated with Pechts, 80;
with Fians, 81-84;
with Fions, 85.
As Dananns (q. v.), F's associated with Cruithne, 51, 127-129.
Builders of a church in Brittany in circumstances suggestive of the Pechts, 85.
Inhabitants of the White Cater Thun, an alleged stronghold of the Pechts, 99-100.
"Dancing and making merry" in the Orkneys, c. 1700 (cf. Shetland Finns, 3, 14, 111n.
Frequently seen at Fitty Hill, Westray, at same period, 33.
"Fairy Ha'" in Shetland, 104.
"In armour" in Orkney, 14;
at war with each other in Ireland, 93.
Tithes due to F., 97.
"Good" F's of christenings, etc., 91-2;
"Christian" F's, 85.
F's of Clydesdale, 97.
F's as serfs or drudges, 151-2.

Fairy Knowe of Aberfoyle, 152-4.

Fairy Knowe beside Broch of Coldoch (itself a çi-devant Fairy Knowe), 119, 149, 151.

Fearna, Weem of, 136-7.

Fens Fiord, Bergen, 7n.

Fians, or Feens, or Feinne of Gaelic lore:
The Land of the F's, 45.
The Well of the F's, 43.
The Hillock of the F's, 130.
Other F. localities, 46, 49, 51, 52.
Dr. Skene's belief as to the historical position of the F's, 46.
F's preceded the Milesians in Ireland, 46, 51.
F. Confederacy not restricted to Ireland, but included the following divisions:—
F's of England and Wales; of Northern and Central Scotland; and of Lochlin, understood to be the Rhine-Elbe region, 47-51.
Irish F's divisible into:—
F's of Connaught and West; F's of Leinster; and F's of Eastern Ulster, 76, 93.
F's referred to in Scotland in Perthshire (Glenlyon, Glenal-main-with-Glenshee, and Glenshee or Blackwater)  77, 94-95.
Outer Hebrides and part of West Highlands specially the Land of the F., 45.
(?) Referred to in Ayrshire, 85.
F's exacted tribute from Irish kings, 47.
Their ancient rights of hunting and of free-quarters, 94.
Overthrow of F's at Battle of Gawra, 47.
Vanished glory of the F's, 75-76, 130.
Fin, their chief, court dwarf to the king of the "big men," 56.
F's as the drudges and serfs of another race, 75.
F's inhabited "Pechts' houses," 76-77.
F's as builders of stone forts, 75-76.
F's regarded as dwarfs, 65.
F's associated with Dananns, Fir Sidhe, or Fairies, 51, 81-84.
F's regarded as Cruithne or Picts, 51-2, 54.
Their assumed identity with historical and traditional Finns, 44-50, 54-5, 65.
Their magic identified with that of the Finns, 54.
Their "great-antlered deer," 95.
Their darts, 54-5.
Their swiftness of foot, 177.
A descendant of the F., 44.

Fierna, or Fierin, King of the Sidhfir of Munster, 93, 127.
His "hillock" near Limerick, 93, 145.

Fin, Finn, or Fionn, a chief of the Feens of Gaelic tradition:
Grandson of a Finland woman, 49-50.
Described as going in his skin-boat to the Kingdom of the Big
Men, where he became the court dwarf, 55-6.
A dwarf in a Scotch poem of ante 1600, styled a grandson of F., 65.
His stone fort on Cuailgne, 75-6, 93.
His "castles" in Glenlyon, Perthshire, 77.

Finland.
Alleged to be the home of the Orkney Finnmen (6), of the grandmother of "Fin" (49)-(50), of the Fomorians (50)n.

Finn, a chief of the dwarfs of Sylt tradition, 87, 112-113.
Chambered mound of Denghoog said to have been his dwelling, 87, 112-113.

Finnmen of Orkney:
Used to fish in Orkney waters in 17th century, 5-6.
Their seal-skin boats described, 6.
The great speed of these skin-boats, 5-6.
Specimens of their boats at Burray and Edinburgh, 6, 10, 11n, 17n.
F's said to have come from Finland, 6.
Regarded as "barbarous men" by Edinburgh physicians of 1696, 10, 30-31.
"The Dart he makes use of for killing fish," 6.

Finns of Shetland tradition:
Their "sea-skins or seal-skins," 1.
The great speed of these "skins," 4-5.
F's said to have come from Norway, and also from "Shool Skerry," 2-4.
Sea-rovers or pirates, 3, 34-35.
Magicians, soothsayers, and doctors, 1-5.
Inter-married with Shetlanders, 1-4, 34-35.
Descendants of such marriages "lucky," and proud of their descent, 1, 2, 5.
Cattle of the F's, 4.
F's regarded as dwarfs, 56, 92.