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THE REV. JAMES MAXWELL JOASS, D.D.,
IN MEMORY OF
CONSTANT HELP AND KINDNESS RECEIVED
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Our first coming to Golspie
How this book came to be written
Annotation, and chief works used for it
The Folk-Lore Society, and a suggestion to it.
A new class of subjects for prize-essays in schools
Want of research-training in English schools and
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Keltic stories :
The Horse-fairy
15
The Water-wraith of Loch Lindie
How the Water-wraith story was worked up
Similar tales of Lochan a' Ghille and Glenogle.
Satanic story
How that was worked up, and its original form
Its topographical statements .
Stories of hauntings.
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25
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33
,, ghosts that were no ghosts-with a caution
against ghost-shamming
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STORIES (continued)
Contents
41
43
48
Historical and geographical traditions :
The origin of the wild-cat crest of the Earls of
Sutherland.
The names Cat, Cataibh, Catu, and Clann Cattach
applied to Sutherland and Clan Sutherland
The correct form of Scott's 'Mac Callum More'
The obelisk on Golspie bridge
A cave at Backies .
SUPERSTITIONS
'Superstition' exists in all parts of Great Britain.
and among all classes
What'superstition' is
The theory of omens
Superstitions about Fishing:
Dread of the hare
Consulting a witch.
The praying over the boats
Boats not to be counted
Unluckiness of 'the minister,' &c.
Sunday and the sun in fishing-superstitions
Not taking a dead body into the boat
Superstitions about Animals :
Black snails as money-bringers
Cockcrowing at night a bad sign
Cuckoo's note before a door a death-omen