The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland

BY WILLIAM GRANT STEWART.
NEW EDITION.
“Of Brownyis and of Bogilis full is this Beuk.” Gawin Douglas.
LONDON: AYLOTT AND JONES, 8, PATERNOSTER, ROW. EDINBURGH: OLIVER AND BOYD. GLASGOW: MUCKLEHOSE. DUBLIN: M c GLASHAN. INVERNESS: SMITH DOUGLAS. ELGIN: RUSSELL.
LONDON: JOHN KING, PRINTER, 120, FLEET STREET.
This new Edition of the Popular Superstitions and Festive Amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland is humbly and appropriately dedicated:—as being the Lady Patroness of the Brave and Intelligent Highlanders of Strathspey, and its Tributaries, into whom her Ladyship’s genuine benevolence and condescension have infused the most devoted attachment,
By her Ladyship’s Grateful humble servant, THE AUTHOR.
Viewville, Glen Urquhart, June, 1851.
A new and revised Edition of the following Treatise on the superstitions and amusements of the Highlanders, which was very favourably received by the Public on its original publication, has often been called for; but the Author’s urgent professional avocations did not permit of earlier attention to the matter. At the request of many friends and countrymen, the Author has now, however, been induced to reprint the present Edition, in order to record more fully the fast-fading Tales and Traditions which lately formed, and still to a certain extent form, the Winter’s Evening Entertainments of the happy Highland Homes.
Viewville, Glen Urquhart, July, 1851.
No part of the United Kingdom has of late years attracted a greater portion of public attention than the Highlands of Scotland. Formerly isolated as the inhabitants were from their fellow subjects, by a different language and separate interests, their character was but little known and less admired. Devoted to their chiefs and feudal institutions, they entertained a sovereign contempt for their neighbours; and, in their occasional intercourse with them, displayed feelings and manners little calculated to gain confidence or secure esteem.