Remains of the Old Mythology--The Devotional Sentiment--Interesting Usages--Rites of the Scottish Halloween--The Charm of the Egg--The Twelfth Rig--Macculloch’s Courtship--The Extinct Spectres--Legend of Morial’s Den--The Guardian Cock, 55 CHAPTER VI. A Scottish Town of the 17th Century--The Old Castle of the Urquharts--Hereditary Sheriffship, 75 CHAPTER VII. Sir Thomas Urquhart, 86 CHAPTER VIII. The Reformation--Outbreaking at Rosemarkie--Sir John Urquhart of Craigfintrie--The Ousted Ministers--Mr. Fraser of Brea--Luggie, 105 CHAPTER IX. The Chaplain’s Lair, 124 CHAPTER X. The Curates--Donald Roy of Nigg--The Breaking of the Burgh--George Earl of Cromartie--The Union, 143 CHAPTER XI. Important Events which affect the Religious Character--Kenneth Ore--Thomas Hogg and the Man-horse--The Watchman of Cullicuden--The Lady of Ardvrock--The Lady of Balconie, 157 CHAPTER XII. The Fisherman’s Widow, 177 CHAPTER XIII. The Story of John Feddes--Andrew Lindsay, 194 CHAPTER XIV. The Chapel of St. Regulus--Macleod the Smuggler--The Story of Sandy Wood, 209 CHAPTER XV. The Poor Lost Lad--A Ballad in Prose--Morrison the Painter, 221 CHAPTER XVI. The Economy of Accident--The Black Years--Progress of the Pestilence--The Quarantine--The Cholera, 235 CHAPTER XVII. Martinmas Market--The Herring Drove--The Whale-Fishers--The Flight of the Drove--Urquhart of Greenhill--Poem--William Forsyth--The Caithness Man’s Leap, 250 CHAPTER XVIII. Sandy Wright and the Puir Orphan, 267 CHAPTER XIX. Tarbat Ness--Stine Bheag o’ Tarbat, 279 CHAPTER XX. The Mermaid--The Story of John Reid--Maculloch the Corn-Agent--The Washing of the Mermaid, 290 CHAPTER XXI. The Bad Year--Sandison’s Spulzie--The Meal Mob, 305 CHAPTER XXII. The Forty-Five--Nanny Miller’s Onslaught--The Retreat--The Battle of Culloden--Old John Dunbar--Jacobite Psalm, 319 CHAPTER XXIII. The Dropping Cave--The Legend of Willie Millar--A Boy Adventurer--Fiddler’s Well, 329 CHAPTER XXIV. Wars of the Town’s-people--Maculloch the Lawyer--The Law-Plea--Roderick and the Captain--Mr. Henderson, 342 CHAPTER XXV.