It is related of her, that to escape from her attentions, Mac Ian Year and his brother resolved to remove to the Outer Hebrides. They had barely kindled a fire in their new dwelling, when the Glaistig called down the chimney they had forgot the old harrow, but she had brought it, and that she was only on the top of the Coolin Hills when the first clink (_snag_) was given to the flint to kindle the fire. There was nothing for it but to return to Ardnamurchan.[55] AT ERRAY, MULL. At Erray (_an Eirbhe_, the outlying part of a farm[56]), near Tobermory, there was a Glaistig that paid attention principally to the barn. The herd slept in the byre, and he often heard trampling (_tartaraich_) in the adjoining barn. Whatever had been left there at night was found in the morning all in confusion, topsy-turvy (_turrach air tharrach_), one leg over the other (_cas mu seach_). All this was the Glaistig’s work. The Glaistig of Fernach on Loch Awe side conveyed persons of the name of M‘Intyre across a dangerous stream in the neighbourhood. She assumed the shape of a foal. II. THE GRUAGACH. Gruagach, _i.e._ long-haired one, from _gruag_, a wig, is a common Gaelic name for a maiden, a young woman. In old tales and poems, particularly those relating to the times of Murchard Mac Brian, who was king of Ireland _circ._ A.D. 1100, the term means a chief or some person of consequence, probably a young chief. Thus, in a conversation between that king and a young woman, whose nine silk-clad brothers he had killed in battle, she says: “I am daughter of the heir of Dublin, I would not hide it, lord of swords, And to the _Gruagach_ of the Isle of Birds, I, in truth, bore my children.”[57] The name evidently refers to the length of the hair, which it seems to have been a custom in ancient times for men of rank and freemen to allow to grow long. In Argyllshire, and commonly in Gaelic, the name Gruagach, applied to the tutelary being haunting farms and castles, means the same as _Glaistig_, and the idea attached to it is that of a long-haired female, well-dressed like a gentlewoman, looking after the servants, and particularly after the cattle. In parts of Skye, however, the fold-frequenting Gruagach is a tall young man, with long yellow hair, in the attire of a gentleman of a bygone period, having a little switch (_slatag_) in his hand, and with a white breast, as if he wore a frilled shirt. One of the writer’s authorities described him as in appearance like a young man fashionably dressed in a long coat and knee breeches, with a white breast like that of a frilled shirt, and having a cane in his hand. He had even heard that the Gruagach wore a beaver hat—a head-dress which in the Highlands was at one time believed to indicate a gentleman.