Transcribed from the 1889 W. W. Gibbings edition by David Price, email
ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
FOLK-LORE AND LEGENDS
SCOTLAND
W. W. GIBBINGS
18 BURY ST., LONDON, W.C.
1889
Contents:
Prefatory Note
Canobie Dick and Thomas of Ercildoun.
Coinnach Oer.
Elphin Irving.
The Ghosts of Craig-Aulnaic.
The Doomed Rider.
Whippety Stourie.
The Weird of the Three Arrows.
The Laird of Balmachie's Wife.
Michael Scott.
The Minister and the Fairy.
The Fisherman and the Merman.
The Laird O' Co'.
Ewen of the Little Head.
Jock and his Mother.
Saint Columba.
The Mermaid Wife.
The Fiddler and the Bogle of Bogandoran.
Thomas the Rhymer.
Fairy Friends.
The Seal-Catcher's Adventure.
The Fairies of Merlin's Craig.
Rory Macgillivray.
The Haunted Ships.
The Brownie.
Mauns' Stane.
"Horse and Hattock."
Secret Commonwealth.
The Fairy Boy of Leith.
The Dracae.
Lord Tarbat's Relations.
The Bogle.
Daoine Shie, or the Men of Peace.
The Death "Bree."
PREFATORY NOTE
The distinctive features of Scotch Folk-lore are such as might have been
expected from a consideration of the characteristics of Scotch scenery.
The rugged grandeur of the mountain, the solemn influence of the
widespreading moor, the dark face of the deep mountain loch, the babbling
of the little stream, seem all to be reflected in the popular tales and
superstitions. The acquaintance with nature in a severe, grand, and
somewhat terrible form must necessarily have its effect on the human
mind, and the Scotch mind and character bear the impress of their natural
surroundings. The fairies, the brownies, the bogles of Scotland are the
same beings as those with whom the Irish have peopled the hills, the
nooks, and the streams of their land, yet how different, how
distinguished from their counterparts, how clothed, as it were, in the
national dress!