Note 42 — Chapter II · TALES ILLUSTRATIVE OF FAIRY SUPERSTITION. (continued 2)

This Dò’il MacJain is probably the Dò’il du beag Innse-ruithe, a celebrated bowman and follower of Cameron of Locheil, and, as his name denotes, a person of small stature, who, according to tradition, shot the arrow that nailed the hand of Big Angus Macian (Aonghas Mòr Mac’ic Eòin) of Ardnamurchan, one of the most stalwart men of his day, to his forehead, in Coir Ospuinn, in Morvern, circ. A.D. 1596. Others say Jain du beag (little black John) was the hunter whose arrow struck the hind. Another (perhaps the same) celebrated Lochaber archer was Jain beag a bhuilg bhàin (little John of the white bag) from Coiruanain.