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]