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[Chapter I.]
Traditional Witchcraft Described[1]
[Chapter II.]
Witch Narrative[21]
[Chapter III.]
Witchcraft Trials and Persecution[66]
[Chapter IV.]
Fairies and Brownies[142]
[Chapter V.]
Wraiths and Warnings[198]
[Chapter VI.]
Death Customs and Funeral Ceremony[216]
[Chapter VII.]
Ghost Lore and Haunted Houses[244]
[Appendix.]
(a) Surprising Story of the Devil of Glenluce[302]
(b) A True Relation of an Apparition which Infested
the house of Andrew Mackie, Ringcroft of
Stocking, Parish of Rerwick, etc.
[321]
(c) The Laird o’ Coul’s Ghost[344]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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The Witches’ Ride[4]
“And Perish’d Mony a Bonny Boat”[12]
The Carlin’s Cairn[35]
A Witch-Brew and Incantation[38]
“A Running Stream they dare na cross”[69]
A Witch Trial[85]
The Burning of the Nine Women on the Sands of Dumfries, April 13th, 1659[114]
Penance[125]
“In Fairy Glade”[152]
“Riddling in the Reek”[167]
An Eerie Companion[206]
“Deid Lichts”[211]
Funeral Hospitality[222]
A Galloway Funeral of Other Days[238]
The Headless Piper of Patiesthorn[266]
The Ghost of Buckland Glen[271]
“To Tryst with Lag”[280]
Ringcroft of Stocking[324]
Tail-pieces.
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A Threefold Charm ’gainst Evil[20]
Witch Stool and Brooms[65]
Witch Cauldron, Ducking Stool, and Stake[141]
To Kep Skaith[197]
A Midnight Revel[215]
Haunted[243]

Witchcraft and Superstitious Record

IN THE

South-western District of Scotland.

CHAPTER I.