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Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands and Islands

Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands and Islands

by John Gregorson Campbell

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Editor
Wallace, Jessie Campbell
Original Publication
United Kingdom: David Nutt,1895.
Credits
Susan Skinner, Thomas Frost and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
GR: Geography, Anthropology, Recreation: Folklore
Subject
Highlands (Scotland)
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 67609
Release Date
March 12, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.CLAN TRADITIONS AND POPULAR TALES OF THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS,
  2. 2.CONTENTS.
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.INTRODUCTION. — NOTES:
  5. 5.CLAN TRADITIONS.
  6. 6.MACLEANS OF DOWART.
  7. 7.DEATH OF BIG LACHLAN MACLEAN, CHIEF OF DUART,— ( Lachunn Mòr Dhuart ).
  8. 8.MACLEANS OF COLL.
  9. 9.BROWNS OF TIREE. ( Clann-a-Bhruthain ).
  10. 10.THE STORY OF MAC-AN-UIDHIR. — NOTES:
  11. 11.STEEPING THE WITHIES. — NOTES:
  12. 12.LITTLE JOHN OF THE WHITE BAG. ( Iain Beag a’ Bhuilg Bhain ).
  13. 13.THE KILLING OF BIG ANGUS OF ARDNAMURCHAN. ( Aonghas Mor Mac’Ill’-Eoin ), Big Angus, Son of John, At Cor-Ospuinn in Morven. — NOTES: BIG ANGUS OF ARDNAMURCHAN. ( Aonghas mór Mac ’ic Eoin )
  14. 14.THE LAST CATTLE RAID IN TIREE. — NOTES:
  15. 15.LOCHBUIE’S TWO HERDSMEN.
  16. 16.LOCHABUIDHE ’S A DHA BHUACHAILLE. — NOTES:
  17. 17.MAC NEIL OF BARRA, AND THE LOCHLINNERS.
  18. 18.FINLAY GUIVNAC. — NOTES:
  19. 19.BIG DEWAR OF BALEMARTIN, TIREE. — NOTES:
  20. 20.THE BIG LAD OF DERVAIG.
  21. 21.STORY OF DONALD GORM OF SLEAT. — NOTES:
  22. 22.DONALD GORM IN MOIDART.
  23. 23.THE BLACK RAVEN OF GLENGARRY.
  24. 24.CAILLEACH POINT, OR THE OLD WIFE’S HEADLAND,
  25. 25.A TRADITION OF ISLAY. — NOTES:
  26. 26.FAIR LACHLAN, SON OF FAIR NEIL OF DERVAIG. ( Lachunn fionn mac Neill bhàin, Fear Dhearbhaig. )
  27. 27.LEGENDARY HISTORY.
  28. 28.PRINCESS THYRA OF ULSTER AND HER LOVERS. A Story of Lochmaree. [21] — NOTES:
  29. 29.GARLATHA. A TRADITION OF HARRIS. — NOTES:
  30. 30.STORIES ABOUT THE FAIRIES.
  31. 31.THE TRADITION OF A HOUSEWIFE AND HER FAIRY VISITOR.
  32. 32.THE WISE WOMAN OF DUNTULM AND THE FAIRIES.
  33. 33.FOLK TALES.
  34. 34.THE TWO BROTHERS. A Tale of Enchantment.
  35. 35.THE TWO SISTERS AND THE CURSE. — NOTES:
  36. 36.THE DARK, OR PITCH-PINE, DAUGHTER OF THE NORSE KING, And how she thinned the Woods of Lochaber.
  37. 37.AN DUBH GHIUBHSACH, NIGHEAN RIGH LOCHLAINN, Agus mar a chrionaich I Coille Lochabair.
  38. 38.O’NEIL, AND HOW THE HAIR OF HIS HEAD WAS MADE TO GROW.
  39. 39.O’ NEIL, ’S MAR A CHAIDH AM FALT AIR A CHEANN.
  40. 40.BEAST FABLES.
  41. 41.THE WOLF AND THE FOX.
  42. 42.THE FOX AND THE BIRD.
  43. 43.THE WREN.
  44. 44.THE CAT AND THE MOUSE. A Gaelic Nursery Rhyme. — NOTES:
  45. 45.GAMES.
  46. 46.APPENDIX. — I.—FINLAY GUIVNAC. — II.—PORT-NAN-LONG. — III.—A TRADITION OF MORAR. — NOTES: — IV.—CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN J. F. CAMPBELL OF ISLAY AND J. G. CAMPBELL. — SÀIL OR SÌOL DHIARMAID. — The Fairy Song. — NOTES:
  47. 47.A SELECTION FROM

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