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]

HISTORICAL TALES & LEGENDS
OF THE HIGHLANDS.