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

XVIII. Folk-Tales of
Deeds
CONTENTS
Doughtv Men and Doughty ..'.... 213
Black Roderic Challenges Rob Roy ; Black Roderic
Roy's Promise
and the Warrior of Sealltuinn ; Rob
to MacAlpine ; MacNicol's Leap ; Gorrie's Leap ;
The Rescue of an Heir ; Swordsmanship in the
Isles ; John AlacLeod and the Italian Swordsman
A Renowned Swordsman ; The Bumpering of
Rory Mor's Horn ; The Exploits of Donald Cam
MacAulay; Treachery Avenged; Adrift in an
Oarless Boat; How the Fletchers lost Achalladcr;
" The Sweetest Bite."
XIX. Folk-Tales of Highland Hospitality .
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. 237
The Wife of Ben-y-Ghloe; The Man from Inverlochy;
MacNab's Welcome to the Sheriff-Officer;
Rory Mor's Revelry at Rodil ; Donald Gorm
Storm-stayed at Dunvegan ; A Tale of Old Glen
Strae.
XX. Norse and Viking Folk-Tales .
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The Death of Sweno; The Price of Deception;
A Viking Tale of Raasay; Well of Beothail's
Bones ; Til, the Warrior-Prince from Lochlann
Kisimul Castle and the Lochlannaich ; MacNeil's
Bardess Deceives the Norsemen; Eilean Donan
Wrested from the King's Troops ; The Crooked
Grey; The Fate of Grey Somerled.
XXI. Witch Tales and the Evil Eye . . . 262
The Three Witches of Camustianavaig ; The Fate
of a Confiding Son ; The Drowning of Iain Garbh
A Witch Caught Red-footed; Shod with Horseshoes
; The Three Banshees ; A Mother's Prudence
The Occult Powers of the MotJian; How Graham
of Menteith Obtained Wine for his Guests; Loch
of the Sword; Gormul of Moy; The Power of a
Live Cinder; The Evil Kyt in Glen Lyon.
XXII. Ghost Tales and Haunted Places . . 282
The Haunted Country; The Hidden Ploughshare;
Ghost Light; The Loch Light of Rannoch; Two
Balls of Fire; Two Breadalbain Ghosts; A Ghost
from the Isle of Skve ; The Ghost of Donald
Gorm; The Ghost of Ewen of the Wee Head;
Ghost of Dune Tower; The Phantom Angler;
Ocean of the Spectre; A Ghost Story from
Kintyre ; The Inquisitive Ghost; The Washer of
the Death-Shrouds ; Lad of the Wet Foot ; The
Strangers of the Plain ; The Ghost-Haunted House
of Inverawe ; Where
Vegetation will not Grow
Dockens, Nettles, and Blaeberry; The Haunted
Precipice; "A Piece of Silly Credulity"; Ghost
of a Spanish Princess ; The Haunted Coffee-house.
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