WESTERN HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS, _Collected from Oral Sources_ BY THE LATE REV. JOHN GREGORSON CAMPBELL. _MINISTER OF TIREE._ SELECTED FROM THE AUTHOR’S MS. REMAINS, AND EDITED BY JESSIE WALLACE AND DUNCAN MAC ISAAC, WITH INTRODUCTION BY ALFRED NUTT. _PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATIONS._ LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270–271 STRAND. --- 1895. CONTENTS. PAGE PREFACE, vii INTRODUCTION: ALFRED NUTT, ix Memoir of the late Rev. John Gregorson Campbell. His work as a folk-lorist. The present work. CLAN TRADITIONS. MACLEANS OF DUART, 1 DEATH OF BIG LACHLAN MACLEAN, 5 MACLEANS OF COLL, 7 BROWNS OF TIREE, 12 THE STORY OF MAC AN UIDHIR, 18 STEEPING THE WITHIES, 24 LITTLE JOHN OF THE WHITE BAG, 25 THE KILLING OF BIG ANGUS OF ARDNAMURCHAN, 26 THE LAST CATTLE RAID IN TIREE, 29 LOCHBUIE’S TWO HERDSMEN, 32 FINLAY GUIVNAC, 44 BIG DEWAR OF BALEMARTIN, 51 THE BIG LAD OF DERVAIG, 53 DONALD GORM OF SLEAT, 59 DONALD GORM OF MOIDART, 62 THE BLACK RAVEN OF GLENGARRY, 63 THE OLD WIFE’S HEADLAND, 65 A TRADITION OF ISLAY, 67 FAIR LACHLAN OF DERVAIG, 70 LEGENDARY HISTORY. PRINCESS THYRA OF ULSTER AND HER LOVERS, 74 GARLATHA OF HARRIS, 80 STORIES ABOUT THE FAIRIES. A HOUSEWIFE AND HER FAIRY VISITOR, 83 THE WISE WOMAN OF DUNTULM AND THE FAIRIES, 86 FOLK TALES. THE TWO BROTHERS, 91 THE TWO SISTERS AND THE CURSE, 95