A dheilbh, ’s a chuir bo air laogh.
(2) T’ fhalt ’s t’ fhionna Di’rdaoin,
’S t’ ionga mhaol Di-sathuirne.
[78] V. page 293.
[79] When hid in her vacant interlunar cave, i.e. when she is waning and late of rising, the dark period of the night is called rath dorcha (dark circle). “Son of the moon’s dark circle” (mhic an rath dorcha) is an expression of mild objurgation.
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]