Front matter
Reading edition
HISTORICAL TALES AND LEGENDS
OF THE
HIGHLANDS.
COMPILED BY
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE,
EDITOR OF THE “CELTIC MAGAZINE,” AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF THE CLAN MACKENZIE,” THE “PROPHECIES OF THE BRAHAN SEER,” &c., &c.
“ ’S iomadh rud a chi Am fear a bhitheas fada beo.”
INVERNESS: A. & W. MACKENZIE, CELTIC MAGAZINE OFFICE EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN & STEWART.
1878.
PREFACE
These Tales and Legends were very favourably received by a wide circle of readers, and by the Press generally, as they appeared from month to month in the Celtic Magazine. They are now published in a collected form at the request of many who have previously perused them. I would like to present the public with the names of their authors; but as one of them—the “Norman” and “Torquil” of the Celtic Magazine—objects to have his name made public, although he has written the greater number of them, I must content myself now by taking advantage of this opportunity to thank him, “Mac Iain,” and the others who supplied the Tales and Legends, the merits of which—especially those for which I may be held personally responsible—I propose to leave to the tender mercies of an indulgent public.
ALEX. MACKENZIE.
Celtic Magazine Office, Inverness, September 1878.
CONTENTS.
page.
Locality 1
The Spell of Cadboll 7
Prince Charlie and Mary Macleod 17
James Macpherson, the famous Musician
and Freebooter 25
The First Gauger in Skye 32
The Raid of Cilliechriost 75
Lachlan Og Mackinnon and the Skye Factor 83
James Grant of Carron 88
John Mackay of Farr 94
The Cummings of Badenoch 100
Glengarry and his Favourite 108
Castle Urquhart and the Fugitive Lovers 114
The Fairies and Donald Duaghal Mackay 122
Young Glengarry, the Black Raven 128
Cawdor Castle 132
A Legend of Invershin 137
The Bonnie Earl of Moray 143
The Rout of Moy 160
A Legend of Loch-Maree 165
Allan Donn and Annie Campbell 189
Mary Macleod of Marrig 199