The peat-fire flame : folk-tales and traditions of the Highlands & Islands

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I. Faeries : Their Propensities and Activities 1
Concerning Faeries in General; The Men of
Peace and the Women of Peace; Released from
Faeryland; The Faeries of Pennygown ; The
Wizard of Reay and his Book of Magic; The
Faeries of the Seely Howe ; How the Faeries
Faery Tale of Sandray; A
Persecuted Luran ; A
Faery's Desire; The Faery Cup of Raasay; Red
Donald of the Faeries; Dancing
A Host of Faeries ; The Faery
in Faeryland;
Dyers ; Faery
Arrows; A Faery Spade; A Perpetual Baking;
The Faeries of St. Kilda ; The Faery Flag; Faery
Millers; The Little Folk of Sandwick Hill; A
Stag's Weight ; The Secret Commonwealth ; Two
Tiny Boys with Green Vests; Engaged to the
Clerk to the Faeries.
II. Faery Music 29
Faery Bagpipes on the Isle of Muck; A Faery
Orchestra; Black MacKcnzie of the Pipes; Big
Donald, King of the Faeries ; Robin Og and the
Faery Pipes; Faery Music among the Moonlit
Snows ; The Silver Chanter of MacCrimmon.
III. Faery Dogs and Faery Cattle ... 37
Imprints on the Sand ; Lair of the Faery Dog
Faery Dogs in Benbecula; The Oracular Tooth of
Small, Red Cow
the Faery Dog ; Faery Cows ; A
Sea-Cows at Luskentyre ; Faery Cattle in the Isle
of Skye; Red-eared Sea-Cattle; The Sea-Cattle's
Croon.
IV. The Brownie 44
The Little Old Man of the Barn; A Colonsay
Brownie; The Invisible Herdsman; Letting in the
Rain ; Some Family Brownies ; The Cara Brownie ;
The Little One of Kintyre ; The Brownie of
Berneray; The Eighth Part Measure of a Carle;
Brownies of the Great Glen; The Mag Mulloch
Brownie of Rothiemurchus
of Tullochgorm ; The
A Brownie in the Northern Isles; A Faery-sprite
of Good Works; The Loireag of Ben More.
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