| CHAPTER I | |
|---|---|
| The Fairies | |
| PAGE | |
Names Given to Fairies |
3 |
The Size of Fairies |
9 |
Fairy Dwellings |
11 |
Fairy Dresses |
14 |
The Defects of Fairies |
15 |
Their Occupations |
15 |
Seasons of Festivity |
16 |
Fairy Raids |
18 |
Circumstances under which Fairies are seen |
21 |
Fairy Food |
21 |
Gifts Bestowed by Fairies |
22 |
The Giving and taking of Loans |
24 |
Eddy Wind |
24 |
Rain and Sunshine, Wind and Rain |
26 |
Fairy Arrows |
26 |
Cattle |
27 |
Horses |
30 |
Dogs |
30 |
Elfin Cats |
32 |
Fairy Theft |
32 |
Stealing Women and Children |
36 |
Changelings |
38 |
Deformities |
39 |
Nurses |
40 |
The Men of Peace |
40 |
The Bean Nighe, or Washing Woman |
42 |
The Song of the Fairy Woman |
44 |
The Glaistig as distinct from the Banshi |
44 |
Elfin Queen |
45 |
Protection against Fairies |
46 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| Tales Illustrative of Fairy Superstition | |
Luran |
52 |
The Cup of the Macleods of Raasa |
57 |
The Fairies on Finlay’s Sandbank |
57 |
Pennygown Fairies |
59 |
Ben Lomond Fairies |
60 |
Callum Clark and his Sore Leg |
60 |
The Young Man in the Fairy Knoll |
61 |
Black William the Piper |
65 |
The Harris Woman and her Baking |
66 |
Lifted by the Fairies |
68 |
Fairies Coming to Houses |
73 |
The Lowland Fairies |
76 |
Fairies Stealing Women and Children |
78 |
Ready Wit Repulses the Fairies |
85 |
Kindness to a Neglected Child |
86 |
The Bridegroom’s Burial |
86 |
The Crowing of the Black Cock |
87 |
Throwing the Arrow |
88 |
The Woman Stolen from France |
90 |
Changelings |
90 |
Taking away Cows and Sheep |
92 |
The Dwellings of the Fairies |
93 |
Fairy Assistance |
96 |
The Battle of Trai-Gruinard |
100 |
Duine Sith, Man of Peace |
101 |
Bean Shith, Elle Woman, or Woman of Peace |
102 |
Donald Thrashed by the Fairy Woman |
105 |
Iona Banshi |
107 |
Tiree Banshi |
108 |
Macphie’s Black Dog |
109 |
The Carlin of the Spotted Hill |
122 |
Donald, Son of Patrick |
123 |
The Wife of Ben-y-Ghloe |
125 |
Fairy Women and Deer |
126 |
O’Cronicert’s Fairy Wife |
127 |
The Gruagach Ban |
132 |
Deer Killed and conveyed home at Night |
133 |
Fairies and Goats |
134 |
Fairies and Cows |
134 |
Fairy Cows |
135 |
The Thirsty Ploughman |
137 |
The Fairy Churning |
137 |
Milk Spilt by Dairymaids |
138 |
Fairy Music |
138 |
MacCrimmon |
139 |
Fairy Dogs (‘Cu Sith’) |
141 |
What happens to Dogs Chasing Fairies |
144 |
Fairies and Horses |
146 |
Fairies and the Handmill |
149 |
Fairies and Oatmeal |
150 |
Fairies and Iron |
152 |
Name of the Deity |
153 |
Fairy Gifts |
153 |
Struck by the Fairy Arrow Spade |
154 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| Tutelary Beings | |
(I) The Glaistig |
155 |
At Glenduror |
162 |
At Sron-Charmaig |
162 |
At Inverawe House |
164 |
At Dunstaffnage Castle |
164 |
In Tiree |
165 |
At Sleat, Skye |
165 |
In the Island of Coll |
166 |
At Dunolly Castle |
166 |
At Mernaig Castle |
166 |
In Strathglass |
167 |
At Lianachan |
168 |
In Glenorchy |
171 |
M‘Millan of Knap stabbing the Glaistig |
172 |
At Craignish |
173 |
On Garlios, Morvern |
173 |
At Ardnadrochit, Mull |
175 |
On Baugh, Tiree |
176 |
At Strontian |
177 |
On Hianish, Tiree |
177 |
In Ulva |
178 |
In Iona |
179 |
In Ross, Mull |
179 |
In Corry-na-Henchor |
180 |
Mac-Ian Year |
181 |
At Erray, Mull |
183 |
(II) The Gruagach |
184 |
(III) Brownie |
186 |
Gunna |
189 |
The Old Man of the Barn |
190 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| The Urisk, The Blue Men, and The Mermaid | |
The Urisk |
195 |
The Blue Men |
199 |
The Mermaid |
201 |
| CHAPTER V | |
| The Water-Horse | |
Farmers and Water-Horses |
204 |
Mac-Fir Arois |
205 |
The Talking Horse at Cru-Loch |
207 |
Island of Coll |
208 |
The Nine Children at Sunart |
208 |
Killing the Raasay Water-Horse |
209 |
The Water-Horse at Loch Cuaich |
210 |
The Water-Horse at Tiree |
211 |
Water-Horse and Women |
212 |
The Water-Horse at Loch Basibol, Tiree |
214 |
The Kelpie |
215 |
The Water-Bull |
216 |
The King Otter |
216 |
Biasd na Srogaig |
217 |
The Big Beast of Lochawe |
218 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Superstitions about Animals | |
Lamprey—Sea Serpent—Gigelorum—Lavellan—Bernicle Goose—Eels—Whale—Herring—Flounder—Lobster—Serpents—Rats and Mice—Cormorant—Magpie—Beetles—Emmet—Skip-Jack |
219-228 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| Miscellaneous Superstitions | |
Gisvagun, Eapagun, Upagun |
229 |
The Right-Hand Turn (Deiseal) |
229 |
Rising and Dressing |
230 |
Clothes |
231 |
Houses and Lands |
231 |
Baking |
232 |
Removal Cheese (Mulchag Imrich) |
234 |
Leg Cake (Bonnach Lurgainn) |
234 |
Giving Fire out of the House |
234 |
Thunder |
235 |
Theft |
236 |
Salt |
236 |
Combing the Hair |
236 |
Bird Nests |
237 |
Hen’s First Egg |
237 |
Euphemisms |
237 |
Boat Language |
239 |
Fresh Meat |
240 |
Killing those too long alive |
240 |
Funerals |
241 |
The Watch of the Graveyard (Faire Chlaidh) |
242 |
Cill Challum Chille |
242 |
Suicides |
242 |
Murder |
243 |
The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach) |
243 |
La u Bhrochain mhòr (Big Porridge Day) |
244 |
Fires on Headlands |
244 |
Stances |
244 |
Names |
245 |
Delivery of Cattle and Horses |
245 |
Trades |
246 |
Iron |
246 |
Empty Shells |
247 |
Protection against Evil Spirits |
247 |
Misnaming a Person |
248 |
Gaining Straw (Sop Seile) |
248 |
Propitious Times |
248 |
Unlucky Actions |
249 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| Augury | |
At Outset of a Journey |
253 |
Unlucky to look back |
255 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| Premonitions and Divination | |
Premonitions (Meamna) |
258 |
Trial (Deuchainn) |
259 |
Divination (Fiosachd) |
262 |
Shoulder-blade Reading (Slinneineachd) |
263 |
Palmistry (Dearnadaireachd) |
266 |
Divination by Tea, or Cup-reading (Leughadh Chupaichean) |
266 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| Dreams and Prophecies | |
Dreams (Bruadar) |
268 |
Prophecies (Fàisneachd) |
269 |
The Lady of Lawers |
274 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| Imprecations, Spells, and the Black Art | |
Imprecation (Guidhe) |
277 |
Spells (Geasan no Geasaibh) |
281 |
The Black Art |
285 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| The Devil | |
Card Playing |
292 |
Red Book of Appin |
292 |
Coming for the Dying |
295 |
Making the Devil your Slave |
296 |
Coming Misfortune |
298 |
The Gaïck Catastrophe (Mort Ghàthaig) |
300 |
The Bundle of Fern |
303 |
The Pig in the Indigo Pot |
303 |
Among the Tailors |
304 |
Taghairm, or “Giving his Supper to the Devil” |
304 |
Glas Ghairm—Power of Opening Locks |
311 |