The popular superstitions and festive amusements of the Highlanders of Scotland

by William Grant Stewart

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^cGLASHAN. INVERNESS:
SMITH DOUGLAS. ELGIN: RUSSELL.

LONDON:
JOHN KING, PRINTER, 120, FLEET STREET.

TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
THE COUNTESS OF SEAFIELD.

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.