Historical Tales and Legends of the Highlands

COMPILED BY

ALEXANDER MACKENZIE,

EDITOR OF THE “CELTIC MAGAZINE,”
AUTHOR OF THE “HISTORY OF THE CLAN MACKENZIE,”
THE “PROPHECIES OF THE BRAHAN SEER,” &c., &c.

“ ’S iomadh rud a chi Am fear a bhitheas fada beo.”

INVERNESS:
A. & W. MACKENZIE, CELTIC MAGAZINE OFFICE
EDINBURGH: MACLACHLAN & STEWART.

1878.

PREFACE

These Tales and Legends were very favourably received by a wide circle of readers, and by the Press generally, as they appeared from month to month in the Celtic Magazine. They are now published in a collected form at the request of many who have previously perused them. I would like to present the public with the names of their authors; but as one of them—the “Norman” and “Torquil” of the Celtic Magazine—objects to have his name made public, although he has written the greater number of them, I must content myself now by taking advantage of this opportunity to thank him, “Mac Iain,” and the others who supplied the Tales and Legends, the merits of which—especially those for which I may be held personally responsible—I propose to leave to the tender mercies of an indulgent public.

ALEX. MACKENZIE.

Celtic Magazine Office, Inverness,
September 1878.

CONTENTS.

	page.
Locality	1
The Spell of Cadboll	7
Prince Charlie and Mary Macleod	17
James Macpherson, the famous Musician
and Freebooter	25
The First Gauger in Skye	32
The Raid of Cilliechriost	75
Lachlan Og Mackinnon and the Skye Factor	83
James Grant of Carron	88
John Mackay of Farr	94
The Cummings of Badenoch	100
Glengarry and his Favourite	108
Castle Urquhart and the Fugitive Lovers	114
The Fairies and Donald Duaghal Mackay	122
Young Glengarry, the Black Raven	128
Cawdor Castle	132
A Legend of Invershin	137
The Bonnie Earl of Moray	143
The Rout of Moy	160
A Legend of Loch-Maree	165
Allan Donn and Annie Campbell	189
Mary Macleod of Marrig	199

HISTORICAL TALES & LEGENDS
OF THE HIGHLANDS.

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HISTORICAL TALES & LEGENDS OF THE HIGHLANDS.

HISTORICAL TALES & LEGENDS
OF THE HIGHLANDS.