A Gaelic-speaking minister gave the following information. It refers to Arran. He knew several old women who professed _eolas a chronachaidh_, but he did not hold a high opinion of them. One case, however, he remembers especially in this connection. A lad was taken suddenly ill, supposed to be a case of _cronachadh_. An old woman, who was respected in the district, came to see him, and going above him in the bed, made motions with her hands over him and on her own person, repeating an incantation of some length at the same time. The lad recovered. The reciter admits the fact, but does not incline to accept the _eolas_ performance as having caused the recovery. A reciter in Mull was telling before her mother of the operations of a _cailleach_ of this sort, when the mother added, she herself had spoken with the woman, she was a decent body, and assured her that there was nothing whatever wrong in what she did for the cure of cattle when hurt by the Evil Eye. The words used were good, and she repeated them, but she added that a great deal depended upon the person who applied for _eolas_, and that, unless such a person believed that a cure would be effectual, there was little use in what she herself could do, and no use at all in the contents of the bottle which she supplied. It might just as well be thrown out on the roadside. HURTER AND HEALER A farmer’s wife, an old woman, but smart and intelligent, and showing no failure of memory, expressed the following opinion:— The power to do injury to beast or person, and the power to cure such an injury appeared to have been given to different classes of people. Those who did injury were supposed to be malevolent, and of course held in bad repute, while the curers were looked upon as for the good of people and to be respected. What the one did was called _cronachadh_, and what the other did _beannachadh_ (blessing). To another, an Islay lady, the remark was made that _cronachadh_ was a strange thing. In answer she said: “Yes, but _beannachadh_ was quite as strange.” “What is that?” “_Fiosrachadh or eolas._” (Knowledge the result of inquiry, and knowledge apparently arrived at in any way, say by revelation.) That is one side of the picture. We see the other in the following:—