Rudha Chailleach--Witchcraft and magic still believed in--Jessie the cripple, a witch--Depriving milk of its fruit--Kenlochewe case in presbytery records--Kenneth Mackenzie, the maighstair sgoil, punishes the witch at Strath--His cows recover--Recent cases--The sian--Description of it--Duncan M'Rae--His song--Entrusted with a keg of gold for Prince Charlie--Hides the keg in the Fedan Mor--Renders it invisible by the sian--The wife of the Cibear Mor sees the keg--The cave at Meallan a Ghamhna--The cave and weapons concealed by the sian--Seen by several women recently--Another similar case on Loch Maree--Alastair Mor an t' Sealgair--Runs the blockade by means of the sian--His variations of the sian--Other examples of Alastair's and his father's powers--The wind made favourable by magic 163 CHAPTER XV.--VISIONS AND SECOND-SIGHT. Distinction between visions and second-sight--Old Alastair's vision of Hector Roy and his bodyguard--A young man sees a ghost--Two men see a woman in a house--Spectre seen before a shoot--Two kinds of second-sight--Jessie the cripple--Ducked as a witch--Her vision of a shepherd, his dog and sheep, fulfilled--The smith's son sees a crowd on Poolewe bridge--His vision fulfilled--The great storm on Loch Ewe--Great sight at Mellon Udrigil--Fleet of ships and boats filled with red coats--Visions of soldiers in red uniforms near Inveran--These visions compared with similar sights elsewhere 169 CHAPTER XVI.--BARDS AND PIPERS. Ancient bards an illustrious class--Ossian's poems--Office of bard or seannachie--Bards of recent date--Ceilidh--Antiquity of bagpipes--Office of piper in old days--In the present day--Love of pipe music in Gairloch--Some old Gairloch bards--Ruaridh Breac--The English bard--Duncan M'Rae--Roderick Campbell, piper and fiddler--The Piobaire Ban--List of living Gairloch pipers 173 CHAPTER XVII.--HEREDITARY PIPERS OF THE GAIRLOCH FAMILY. The Mackays--Rorie Mackay, piper to John Roy Mackenzie--Alastair Breac, and his son and grandson--His brother Donald--John Mackay, the blind piper--Taught by the M'Crimmons--Piper to the two first baronets of Gairloch--His compositions--Anecdotes of his life with the M'Crimmons--His songs and poems--Angus Mackay--Piper to Sir Alexander, third baronet--Moladh Mairi--John Mackay, piper to Sir Hector--Emigrates to America--A splendid piper--His offspring 177 CHAPTER XVIII.--WILLIAM MACKENZIE AND MALCOLM MACLEAN.