INDEX.

All Fool’s day, 266

All Saints’ day, 281, 297, 307

Allan of the Faggots, 45

Allophylian, 92

Apparitions of the Dead, 127, 137

Ardvoirlich Stone, 94

Arrow-head, 92

Assumption day, 279

Autumn, 227, 306

Avoiding day, 273

Baal, 224

“Beard Gateway, the,” tale, 189

Beast of Odal Pass, tale, 207

Beckoning Old Man, 187

Beltane, 267, 270, 272

Beltane day, 12, 156, 297

Beltane night, 7

Bereavement of a taïsher, tale, 139

Big Allan of Woodend, 83

Black Duncan of the Cowl, 110

Black Walker of the Ford, 201

Black witchcraft, 1

Black shore, 184

Blind Allan, the Glengarry Bard, 82

Boat of Gortendonald, tale, 161

Boat of Iona, 162

Bocain, 220

Bonfires, 282

Breadalbane’s Warning, 110

Bridewell, 248

Brimstone Betty, 154

Burt’s Story, 36

Calluinn, 230

Cameron of Glenevis, 35

tale, 38

Cameron of Locheil, 198, 200

Campbell and the Battle of Gaura, 206

Candle Day, 244

Cattle cured of sickness, 56,

of murrain, 94

elf-struck, 91

Hairy Donald’s power to hurt or cure, 10

Saining cattle, 257, 272, 277

watched by their dead possessors, 210

Cats, 34

Boy eaten alive by cats, 39

coming to life again, 40

protection against drowning, 35

revenge of a, 38

used in the cure of the evil eye, 61

witches as, 18, 34

woman torn by cats, tale, 39

Celtic Year, the, 224

Charms, 6, 55

against danger, tale, 73

against drowning and dangers in war, 74

counter-charms, 10

Eòlas or, 57

for bruises, 67

for cattle, 71

for conferring graces, 80

for consumption and affections of the chest, 68

for fulling new cloth, 77

for general use, 79

for new-born babes, 77

for preventing a newly-purchased animal going astray, 71

for rheumatic pains, 67

for a sheep, 74

for sprains, 66

for toothache, 69

for young women’s faces, 81

in a lawsuit, 83

love charm, 82

smith’s immunity from bullets, 76

The Gospel of Christ, 79

use of, 55

veteran’s safety, 74

Christmas or Nollaig, 229

Black cuttings of, 244

cheese, 232

Day of Little Christmas, 238

Rhymes, 233

the twelve days of, 243

Cock fighting, 249, 257

Coffin, 151

Contest of a gull and a cormorant, 23

Cormorants, 43

Cows

bewitched, 14

bringing back a cow’s milk, 71

milked to death, 9

old wife’s charm, 73

Cure of

axillary swelling, 99

consumption and leprosy, 100

epilepsy, 97

hiccup, 96

lumbago, 100

miscellaneous cures, 94

stiff neck and toothache, 96

stye and tetter, 95

treatments of madness, 97

warts, 94

whooping-cough, 96

Danger of strong wishes, 140, 143

Daughter of the King of Enchantments, tale, 107

Day of the big porridge, 261

Day of three suppers, 289

Days of the week, 291 to 302

Death, 150

apparitions of the dead, 127, 137

death lights, 169

funeral processions, 155

howling of dogs, 164

legend of the death lights, 171

Spirits seen before a, 172

taïsher seeing his own, 159

warnings, 109

wraiths seen before, 158

Devil’s wiles, tale, 186

Dog Days, 276

Dogs, 163

as spectre-seers, 163

howling, sign of death, 164

Doideag, 26

Donald of the Ear, 48

Donald the Fair-Haired, 140

Doubles, 122, 125, 128, 130, 145, 163

Dowart, 112, 117

Dreag or Driug, 111

Dreams, 27, 209

Spirits appearing in dreams, 179

Drowning, charm against, 74

foreseen by seers, 160

ill-fated boats, 161

sailors’ drowning foretold by screams, 168

Druidism

druid’s glass, 87

relique of, 84

remains of Druid magic, 121

Dublin University Magazine, 39

Duncan Ban MacIntyre, 82

Easter, 263

Easter eggs, 265

Egyptians, 87, 254

Eddy winds of the Storm month, 251

Elisha, 59

Ellis’s Brand’s Antiquities, 239, 243, 244, 248, 271, 280

“Enticing plant, the,” 106

Envy splits the rocks, 63

Etymological Dictionary of Scottish Language, 254

Events happening at a distance, 149

Evil Eye, 59

Cure for, tale, 60

dangers of the, 61

danger for a horse, 62

how to detect the victim, 60

incantations to counteract, 63

precautions against, 59

stone for the cure of the, 93

Ewen M’Corkindale or Ewen of the Dirk, tale, 190

Ewen and the Carlin Wife, tale, 198

Ewen and the Skull, tale, 200

Fairies, 1

February, 245

Festival of Fools in Paris, 243

“Fetch,” or coffins, 119

Fin MacCoul, 188

Fish procured by witchcraft, 17

Flounders, 18

Friday, 297

Good Friday, 262, 298

Frog Stone, 89

Fulfilment of visions, 157, 158, 159, 160

Funeral processions, 128, 155, 156

Gaelic customs on festivals, 229

etymologies, 224

divisions of time, 225

Gaelic months and seasons, 224 to 307

Games to divine the future, 282

Gaura, battle of, 205

Hero of battle, 206

Gelding season, 251

Ghosts

Donald Gorm’s Ghost, tale, 211

Drowned man’s Ghost, tale, 214 and 215

“Gospel,” 94

Hidden ploughshare, tale, 213

Laying a, 222,

in name of Duke of Argyle, 223

of the living, 124

Shadows, 221

Song of a, 179

Silent horseman, 221

Glen Erochty, 203

Goblins, 220

Good Friday, 262, 298

Gregory’s Western Highlands, 211

Grey Paw, the, tale, 194

Gulls, 23, 42

Hallowe’en night, 144

Hallowmas, 284, 297, 307

Handsel Monday, 245

Hares, 8, 33

Haunted houses, 217

seer, 137, 148, 161

Highland Society’s Dictionary, 226, 244

Henderson’s Gloves, tale, 135

Hobgoblins, 181

Baucan, 181, 182

Bodach, 187, 190

dogs and horses, tales, 185, 215

Etiquette when meeting a, 184

Fuath, 188

Haunts of, 183

precursor of Death, 182

refuge from, 184

safety in a circle against, 185

Hogg’s Witch of Fife, 36

Holly whipping, 232

Horses

as spectre-seers, 163

fright of a horse, tale, 165

horse as an omen of Death, 117

men changed into, 49

phantom horse, 111

safe from witches, 13 and 185

saved by incantations, 63

Horse-shoe protection against witchcraft, 12

Hot month, 279

Hugh of the Little Head, tale, 111

Hugh M’Lachlan of Aberdeen, 250

Hugh, son of Donald the Red, tale, 147

Hump-backed Blue-eye or Gormla, 23, 26, 50

Ian Garve, tale, 25

Ignes Fatui, 171

Ile, tale, 177

Juniper, 11,

incantations, 105, 242

Kate MacIntyre, 51

King Frog, 89

Lachlan Mor, 139

Lachlan the Wily, 112

Lady day, 261

Laird of Coll, tale, 8, 139, 146, 180

Lent, 258

Lhuyd’s Archæologia Britannica, 230, 258, 264, 269, 294

Linlithgow, 279

Little Spring of Whelks, 247

Lochan Doimeig, 208

Lochbuy, 112, 118

Lochlin’s daughter, 100

Loch Ma Nàr, 101

Macaulay, Lord, 198

MacCannel, 173

Macdonald, Lord, 23, 48, 173

Macdonall or MacCuïl and the Headless Body, tale, 191

Macdougall of Lorn, 113

Macfadyens, 113, 194

MacGilvray, freed from witchcraft, tale, 47

MacGregor, 35, 110

MacIain Ghiarr, 47

MacIntosh’s Gaelic Proverbs, 297, 301

Maclachlan Clan, 110, 170

Maclaine, 113

MacLean, 118

Maclean, Hector, tale, 30

M’Lean of Coll, 102, 139

MacLean of Dowart, 27, 76, 117, 139

Bewitched clay figure of, 47

his bargain with a shade, 178

clan, 276

Nose of the, 136

Song of the, 115

M’Leod and Dewar’s Dictionary, 250

MacNeills, 21

“Macpherson of power,” legend, 20

Macpherson, 206

MacRanald, 21

Magic staff, 6

Malicious spectres, 133, 135

Manaman MacLeth, 83

Martin’s “Western Highlands”, 248

Martin of the Bag’s day, 277

Martinmas, 274

Maundy-Thursday, 261

May, 272, 273

May Day, 267

Mountain ash, 11, 242

Meyer, 88

Michaelmas, 281

Midsummer’s Eve, 276

Milk carried in a seaweed, 9

Monday, 292

Moon, 304

Nails, 176

New Year’s Day customs, 238, 241

fire, 237

night, 236

rhyme, 234

Nightly assignations with spectres, 130,

tale, 132

with spirits, tale, 175, 201, tale, 203

Noises

depression of a seer caused by, 151

forerunners of funerals, 154

heard by people not taïshers, 152

wailing, sign of death, 166

Old Wife, 253

Omens, 145

Oswy, King of Northumbria, 263

Otter, 89

Paschal Lamb, 254

Peacock’s Guide to the Isle of Man, 70

Pearlwort, 15, 71

its uses, 103

to prevent the return of the dead, 172

Pennant, 89, 243, 271, 274

Pet Ram, the, tale, 217

Phœnicians, 87, 268

Pins, used to free cows from witchcraft, 14

Quartodecimans, 263

“Rag,” the, or the Lakelet of Black Trout, tale, 208

Rats, 42

Red Book of Appin, 13

Red-Headed Donald, 216

Red Hector of the Battles, 76

Return of the Dead, 172, 210, 215

Rhymes, 56

New Year, 234

of the wind, 237

Riddle of the Four Seasons, 225

Roman Calendar, 263

Ronag, or ball of hair, 11

Roodmas, 280

St. Brendan’s Eve, 275

St. Brendan the Elder, 274

St. Bride’s Day, tale, 247

St. Bride’s Rhyme, 249

St. Fillan, legend of, 98

St. Finan’s Eve, 289

St. John’s Eve, 276

St. John’s wort, incantation, 104

St. Kessock’s Day, 259, 290

St. Patrick’s Day, 250, 259

St. Swithin’s Day, 277

Scott, Sir Walter, 87, 193

Michael, 200, 256

Second Sight, 120

hereditary, 126, 131

marriage foreseen by, 147

to get rid of, 180

Seed time, 255

Seers, 122,

tale, 138

haunted by a drowned man, 161

the four wives of a, tale, 148

Sharp-billed one, 251

Sheep, 10, 30

Shepherd’s adventure, 35

Shinty, 230, 238, 239

Shore Thursday, 261

Shrovetide, 256

Sinclair, Alexander, and the dairymaid, tale, 135

Spanish Armada, 28

Spectral funerals, 128, 155,

horses, 153

Spectres, 160

of the living, 132

Spirits of the dead, 172

reverence paid to the dead, 176

Secrets revealed by, 173

unholy compacts, tale, 174 f.

Spring, 225, 250, 260

Strong wishes, tales, 141

Stones—

Burial stones, 177

Cruban stone to cure diseases of joints, 92

Fairy-arrow or elf-bolt, 91

frog stone, 89

serpents’ bead, 85, 87

serpents’ egg, 84

snail bead, 88

storm stone, 93

Virtues of the Fairy Spade, 92

Storm of the Borrowing Days, 25

Summer, 226

Sun, 304

Sunday, 292

Swarths, 124

Sweeper, 251

Tailor and the skulls, 176

detected among witches, 50

drowning witches, 15

Grey Paw and the, tale, 194

tailor’s hole, 197

torn by cats, 37

unlucky experiment in witchcraft, 16

Taïsher, 123, 126

moral character of a, 131

tale, 137, tale, 159

Tàradh, or the omens of living men, 124, 125, 144, 146

Tàsg, 166

Threads used in witchcraft, 6, 10, 61

Three hog dogs, 254

Thursday, 296

Translation of Martin, 277

Tuesday, 294

Ulysses of the Highlands, 198

Unbeliever convinced, tale, 169

Unearthly whistle, tale, 204

Waldron, 121

Wallace, Sir William, and the headless body, 193

Weather wisdom, 302

Wednesday, 294

Weight of the dead, 140

Wells

Fian Flag-Stone Well, healing power of, 101

of Stones, 102

of the Heads, 114

of the Nine Living, 102

Sanna Cave, 101

to cure toothache and jaundice, 102

Western Sea poem, 188

Whales, 44

Whistle, 250

Whistling week, 273

White witchcraft, 54

Whitsuntide, 274

Wicken tree, 103

Wilson’s Prehistoric Annals, 90

Wine, 211, 212

Winter, 227, 281

games, 283

Witchcraft, Black, 1

White, 54

Witches

as cats, tales, 18, 34

as cormorants, tale, 43

as gulls, tale, 23, tale, 42

as hares, tales, 33

as rats, 42

as sheep, 10, 30

as whales, tale, 44

bribes to, 2

celebrated, 50

definition, 2

delaying birth of child, 45

destruction of Captain Forrest’s ship, 27

disguised as a hare, 8

doings of, 5

etymology, 4

going to sea, 15

how to detect, 53

knots to raise the winds, 19

little witch, the, tale, 22

on Beltane eve, 270

plants and trees as protection against, 103

Portree witches sinking a boat, 22

powerless on Wednesdays, 296

raising storms and destroying people, 19

sinking a vessel by means of a dish of milk, 21

their own belief in witchcraft, 3, 58

transformations of, 6

use of tar, 13

using clay corpses, 46

witches and milk, 7

wounded by silver, 30, 49

Wizard rising after death, 52

head-stone, 53

Year, Celtic, 224

of the Silverweed roots, 290

“Yellow Claws,” 23, 26, 51