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Preface,[vii]
Introduction: Alfred Nutt,[ix]

Memoir of the late Rev. John Gregorson Campbell. His work as a folk-lorist. The present work.

Clan Traditions.

Macleans of Duart,[1]
Death of Big Lachlan Maclean,[5]
Macleans of Coll,[7]
Browns of Tiree,[12]
The Story of Mac an Uidhir,[18]
Steeping the Withies,[24]
Little John of the White Bag,[25]
The Killing of Big Angus of Ardnamurchan,[26]
The Last Cattle Raid in Tiree,[29]
Lochbuie’s Two Herdsmen,[32]
Finlay Guivnac,[44]
Big Dewar of Balemartin,[51]
The Big Lad of Dervaig,[53]
Donald Gorm of Sleat,[59]
Donald Gorm of Moidart,[62]
The Black Raven of Glengarry,[63]
The Old Wife’s Headland,[65]
A Tradition of Islay,[67]
Fair Lachlan of Dervaig,[70]

Legendary History.

Princess Thyra of Ulster and her Lovers,[74]
Garlatha of Harris,[80]

Stories about the Fairies.

A Housewife and her Fairy Visitor,[83]
The Wise Woman of Duntulm and the Fairies,[86]

Folk Tales.

The Two Brothers,[91]
The Two Sisters and the Curse,[95]
How the Daughter of the Norse King thinned the Woods of Lochaber,[101]
How O’Neil’s Hair was made to Grow,[108]