| CHAPTER I |
| The Fairies |
| PAGE |
| Names Given to Fairies | 3 |
| The Size of Fairies | 9 |
| Fairy Dwellings | 11 |
| Fairy Dresses | 14 |
| The Defects of Fairies | 15 |
| Their Occupations | 15 |
| Seasons of Festivity | 16 |
| Fairy Raids | 18 |
| Circumstances under which Fairies are seen | 21 |
| Fairy Food | 21 |
| Gifts Bestowed by Fairies | 22 |
| The Giving and taking of Loans | 24 |
| Eddy Wind | 24 |
| Rain and Sunshine, Wind and Rain | 26 |
| Fairy Arrows | 26 |
| Cattle | 27 |
| Horses | 30 |
| Dogs | 30 |
| Elfin Cats | 32 |
| Fairy Theft | 32 |
| Stealing Women and Children | 36 |
| Changelings | 38 |
| Deformities | 39 |
| Nurses | 40 |
| The Men of Peace | 40 |
| The Bean Nighe, or Washing Woman | 42 |
| The Song of the Fairy Woman | 44 |
| The Glaistig as distinct from the Banshi | 44 |
| Elfin Queen | 45 |
| Protection against Fairies | 46 |
| CHAPTER II |
| Tales Illustrative of Fairy Superstition |
| Luran | 52 |
| The Cup of the Macleods of Raasa | 57 |
| The Fairies on Finlay’s Sandbank | 57 |
| Pennygown Fairies | 59 |
| Ben Lomond Fairies | 60 |
| Callum Clark and his Sore Leg | 60 |
| The Young Man in the Fairy Knoll | 61 |
| Black William the Piper | 65 |
| The Harris Woman and her Baking | 66 |
| Lifted by the Fairies | 68 |
| Fairies Coming to Houses | 73 |
| The Lowland Fairies | 76 |
| Fairies Stealing Women and Children | 78 |
| Ready Wit Repulses the Fairies | 85 |
| Kindness to a Neglected Child | 86 |
| The Bridegroom’s Burial | 86 |
| The Crowing of the Black Cock | 87 |
| Throwing the Arrow | 88 |
| The Woman Stolen from France | 90 |
| Changelings | 90 |
| Taking away Cows and Sheep | 92 |
| The Dwellings of the Fairies | 93 |
| Fairy Assistance | 96 |
| The Battle of Trai-Gruinard | 100 |
| Duine Sith, Man of Peace | 101 |
| Bean Shith, Elle Woman, or Woman of Peace | 102 |
| Donald Thrashed by the Fairy Woman | 105 |
| Iona Banshi | 107 |
| Tiree Banshi | 108 |
| Macphie’s Black Dog | 109 |
| The Carlin of the Spotted Hill | 122 |
| Donald, Son of Patrick | 123 |
| The Wife of Ben-y-Ghloe | 125 |
| Fairy Women and Deer | 126 |
| O’Cronicert’s Fairy Wife | 127 |
| The Gruagach Ban | 132 |
| Deer Killed and conveyed home at Night | 133 |
| Fairies and Goats | 134 |
| Fairies and Cows | 134 |
| Fairy Cows | 135 |
| The Thirsty Ploughman | 137 |
| The Fairy Churning | 137 |
| Milk Spilt by Dairymaids | 138 |
| Fairy Music | 138 |
| MacCrimmon | 139 |
| Fairy Dogs (‘Cu Sith’) | 141 |
| What happens to Dogs Chasing Fairies | 144 |
| Fairies and Horses | 146 |
| Fairies and the Handmill | 149 |
| Fairies and Oatmeal | 150 |
| Fairies and Iron | 152 |
| Name of the Deity | 153 |
| Fairy Gifts | 153 |
| Struck by the Fairy Arrow Spade | 154 |
| CHAPTER III |
| Tutelary Beings |
| (I) The Glaistig | 155 |
| At Glenduror | 162 |
| At Sron-Charmaig | 162 |
| At Inverawe House | 164 |
| At Dunstaffnage Castle | 164 |
| In Tiree | 165 |
| At Sleat, Skye | 165 |
| In the Island of Coll | 166 |
| At Dunolly Castle | 166 |
| At Mernaig Castle | 166 |
| In Strathglass | 167 |
| At Lianachan | 168 |
| In Glenorchy | 171 |
| M‘Millan of Knap stabbing the Glaistig | 172 |
| At Craignish | 173 |
| On Garlios, Morvern | 173 |
| At Ardnadrochit, Mull | 175 |
| On Baugh, Tiree | 176 |
| At Strontian | 177 |
| On Hianish, Tiree | 177 |
| In Ulva | 178 |
| In Iona | 179 |
| In Ross, Mull | 179 |
| In Corry-na-Henchor | 180 |
| Mac-Ian Year | 181 |
| At Erray, Mull | 183 |
| (II) The Gruagach | 184 |
| (III) Brownie | 186 |
| Gunna | 189 |
| The Old Man of the Barn | 190 |
| CHAPTER IV |
| The Urisk, The Blue Men, and The Mermaid |
| The Urisk | 195 |
| The Blue Men | 199 |
| The Mermaid | 201 |
| CHAPTER V |
| The Water-Horse |
| Farmers and Water-Horses | 204 |
| Mac-Fir Arois | 205 |
| The Talking Horse at Cru-Loch | 207 |
| Island of Coll | 208 |
| The Nine Children at Sunart | 208 |
| Killing the Raasay Water-Horse | 209 |
| The Water-Horse at Loch Cuaich | 210 |
| The Water-Horse at Tiree | 211 |
| Water-Horse and Women | 212 |
| The Water-Horse at Loch Basibol, Tiree | 214 |
| The Kelpie | 215 |
| The Water-Bull | 216 |
| The King Otter | 216 |
| Biasd na Srogaig | 217 |
| The Big Beast of Lochawe | 218 |
| CHAPTER VI |
| Superstitions about Animals |
| Lamprey—Sea Serpent—Gigelorum—Lavellan—Bernicle Goose—Eels—Whale—Herring—Flounder—Lobster—Serpents—Rats and Mice—Cormorant—Magpie—Beetles—Emmet—Skip-Jack | 219-228 |
| CHAPTER VII |
| Miscellaneous Superstitions |
| Gisvagun, Eapagun, Upagun | 229 |
| The Right-Hand Turn (Deiseal) | 229 |
| Rising and Dressing | 230 |
| Clothes | 231 |
| Houses and Lands | 231 |
| Baking | 232 |
| Removal Cheese (Mulchag Imrich) | 234 |
| Leg Cake (Bonnach Lurgainn) | 234 |
| Giving Fire out of the House | 234 |
| Thunder | 235 |
| Theft | 236 |
| Salt | 236 |
| Combing the Hair | 236 |
| Bird Nests | 237 |
| Hen’s First Egg | 237 |
| Euphemisms | 237 |
| Boat Language | 239 |
| Fresh Meat | 240 |
| Killing those too long alive | 240 |
| Funerals | 241 |
| The Watch of the Graveyard (Faire Chlaidh) | 242 |
| Cill Challum Chille | 242 |
| Suicides | 242 |
| Murder | 243 |
| The Harvest Old Wife (a Chailleach) | 243 |
| La u Bhrochain mhÒr (Big Porridge Day) | 244 |
| Fires on Headlands | 244 |
| Stances | 244 |
| Names | 245 |
| Delivery of Cattle and Horses | 245 |
| Trades | 246 |
| Iron | 246 |
| Empty Shells | 247 |
| Protection against Evil Spirits | 247 |
| Misnaming a Person | 248 |
| Gaining Straw (Sop Seile) | 248 |
| Propitious Times | 248 |
| Unlucky Actions | 249 |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| Augury |
| At Outset of a Journey | 253 |
| Unlucky to look back | 255 |
| CHAPTER IX |
| Premonitions and Divination |
| Premonitions (Meamna) | 258 |
| Trial (Deuchainn) | 259 |
| Divination (Fiosachd) | 262 |
| Shoulder-blade Reading (Slinneineachd) | 263 |
| Palmistry (Dearnadaireachd) | 266 |
| Divination by Tea, or Cup-reading (Leughadh Chupaichean) | 266 |
| CHAPTER X |
| Dreams and Prophecies |
| Dreams (Bruadar) | 268 |
| Prophecies (FÀisneachd) | 269 |
| The Lady of Lawers | 274 |
| CHAPTER XI |
| Imprecations, Spells, and the Black Art |
| Imprecation (Guidhe) | 277 |
| Spells (Geasan no Geasaibh) | 281 |
| The Black Art | 285 |
| CHAPTER XII |
| The Devil |
| Card Playing | 292 |
| Red Book of Appin | 292 |
| Coming for the Dying | 295 |
| Making the Devil your Slave | 296 |
| Coming Misfortune | 298 |
| The GaÏck Catastrophe (Mort GhÀthaig) | 300 |
| The Bundle of Fern | 303 |
| The Pig in the Indigo Pot | 303 |
| Among the Tailors | 304 |
| Taghairm, or “Giving his Supper to the Devil” | 304 |
| Glas Ghairm—Power of Opening Locks | 311 |
