FOLKLORE & MYTH · 1900 · PUBLIC DOMAIN
Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
Collected Entirely from Oral Sources
John Gregorson Campbell
29 CHAPTERS · 75,262 WORDS · ABOUT 284 MINUTES
John Gregorson Campbell, minister of Tiree, 'collected entirely from oral sources' — the sìth and why the Gaelic name means silence, the each-uisge of the lonely lochs, the glaistig and the gruagach with milk set out in a hollowed stone, the ùruisg on his rock above the pass.
SUBJECTSScotlandHighlandsGaelic traditionWater-horseFairy belief
CONTENTS
- 1JOHN GREGORSON CAMPBELL4 MIN
- 2_CHAPTER II_1 MIN
- 3_CHAPTER VII_1 MIN
- 4CHAPTER I. — THE FAIRIES.[1] — part 112 MIN
- 5CHAPTER I. — THE FAIRIES.[1] — part 212 MIN
- 6CHAPTER I. — THE FAIRIES.[1] — part 312 MIN
- 7CHAPTER I. — THE FAIRIES.[1] — part 49 MIN
- 8CHAPTER II. — part 112 MIN
- 9CHAPTER II. — part 211 MIN
- 10CHAPTER II. — part 312 MIN
- 11CHAPTER II. — part 411 MIN
- 12CHAPTER II. — part 512 MIN
- 13CHAPTER II. — part 611 MIN
- 14O’CRONICERT’S FAIRY WIFE.[44]26 MIN
- 15CHAPTER III. — part 111 MIN
- 16CHAPTER III. — part 211 MIN
- 17CHAPTER III. — part 312 MIN
- 18CHAPTER IV.6 MIN
- 19CHAPTER V.14 MIN
- 20CHAPTER VI.8 MIN
- 21CHAPTER VII.19 MIN
- 22CHAPTER VIII. — AUGURY.[68]7 MIN
- 23CHAPTER IX.8 MIN
- 24CHAPTER X.6 MIN
- 25CHAPTER XI.10 MIN
- 26CHAPTER XII.14 MIN
- 27TAGHAIRM, OR “GIVING HIS SUPPER TO THE DEVIL.”7 MIN
- 28C2 MIN
- 29L3 MIN
THE TEXT
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