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

CONTENTS
CHAPTER
P'^GE
XI. Animal Lore 131
The Elusive " Feolacan " ; The King Otter ; The
Legend of the Beetle; The Last Wolf; A Fox's
Sagacity; Three Kindly Kidlings; A Keg of
Butter.
XII. Well Lore
"The Well that Sallied from One Place to
Another"; Wells for Wind-Seekers; The Wells
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of Skye;
The
Well of the Trout; The Wells of St.
Kilda ; Wells of
Well called Fivepennies ; The
Lewis; The Wells of Barra ; Well of the Head;
The Springs that made Loch Awe ; A Well that
Submerged a Castle ; The Apparition at the Well.
XIII. Bell Lore 157
The Bell of Insh ; The Yellow Bell of St. Modan;
The Bell of Inchtavannach ; St. Finnan's Bell ;
Prince Charlie's Silver Bell; St. Drostan's Bell;
The Bell of Kirkmichael; Merrhard's Bells; The
Bell of Cnmine; St. Fillan's Bell.
XIV. Cave Lore 167
The Piper's Cave ; Slain by a Faery Tenant ; Cave
of Gold; Cave of the Little Old Woman of the
Red Fell; How MacPhee Escaped from Colonsay;
Cave of the Maclans ; The Great House of Alba;
Cave of Smoo ; Cave
of the Last of the Giants.
XV. The Lore of Kirk and Kirkyard .
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Minister
Five Queer Stones at Rothiemurchus ; A
and Chief at Variance ; Morag of the Heads ; A
Tale of the Second-Sight; A Story of Clachan
Apparition in a Dornoch
Duich, in Kintail ; The
Kirkyard; Pursued by the Devil; The Brogues of
Love ; The Reel o' Tulloch.
XVI. Folk-Tales of the Bow and Arrow .
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Little James of Loch Achrav; Lieutenant of the
Coast; The Fate of Carn Ban; A Folk-talc of
Western Lewis; The Fury of the Quiver; The
Prowess of Iain Beag MacAndrea; A Flaming
Arrow.
XVII. Rievers' and Caterans' Tales .
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The Fate of MacNeish; How Black Roderic Died;
Neil of the Snow-drift; The Cattle-rievers at
Aignish ; Fate of a Lochaber Cateran ; The Rieving
Exploits of Tain Gearr ; The Valour of Calum Mor
MacVurich; A Folk-tale of Rothiemurchus.
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