The translation is given as received, but a “sop ” is a “wisp,” “a loose bundle,” “a cowardly fellow.” Attention has been called on pages 119 and 136 to the _iubhar_, and on 171 to the _Fachan_. Compare the darning needle’s use and its one eye to the following found among the Wallons of Belgium. “_Li bwegne_, le borgne. Cette singulière appellation s’explique par la ressemblance vague que le gland et ses levres presentent avec un œil et ses paupières. Expression populaire: _sain-ni s’bwegne_, saigner son borgne, c’est-a-dire [Greek: pisser].”[14] The same significance is applied to the same thing in the same way in Arabic, _El aaouar_ (The one-eyed).[15] [14] “Kruptadia,” viii. p. 24. [15] “The Garden,” p. 138. Sheikh Nefzaoui. Paris 1886. This is “a word to the wise” which cannot here be considered further in detail, but undoubtedly has much to do with the preventative of the Evil Eye mentioned, and further explanation of much before alluded to will be evident to the one who can read between the lines when we mention that _maistir_ is in ordinary Gaelic urine, and _maistrich_ is a verb, to churn, to shake together. One other hint. A native of Garmouth on Spey said, “I have often heard people saying that one peacock feather given away to a person is unlucky to the one that gets it, but that more than one is all right. One time Sandy took one to his landlady’s little boy. He noticed that the landlady looked displeased, and it soon disappeared. When he was telling me about it, I said, ‘Why did you not take two to her?’ He replied he would have done so, but he did not want to yield to her _freits_ (superstitious fancies).” Compare this with what immediately precedes it, and notice that the offering of a single eye—a single feather—of the bird in question carried with it an evil influence. A CHRIOCH _Le durachd do E. M. K. mo leth-shuil’s mo dha chluais!_ INDEX _Acallam na Senorach_, 3 Acquaintances, divided into two classes, 46 Admiration, expressions of, to be avoided, 76 Albumen, 198 Alum, 144 _Amhairc, droch_, 5 Animal, 110, 140, 145, 146, 150 _An t-olc_, 11 Antiseptic, 132 Augury, 198 Bad e’e, 2 eye, 25, 30, 43, 54, 207, 208 One, held by the, 106 Bardic Irish stories, 123 Bawbees, 154 _Beannachadh_, 98, 116, 124, 208 _Dia_, 116 Beliefs, 23 _Bhioball_, 95 _Bhuidseachas, sgil mu_, 13 Biblical account, 214 Bitten, 85 Black Art, 114, 123 pokes, 189 thorn, sloe, 138 Bless, 77, 115 Blessed, 115 Father, 160 for the purpose of keeping away the Evil Eye, 114 Blessing seems merely preventative, 117 Blight, 45, 152 by the Evil Eye, 69, 79 Blinked, 45, 164 _Bodach granda_, 96 Bonnet, darning needle stuck in a, 204 Bothan, 117