Cattle 27 Horses 30 Dogs 30 Elfin Cats 32 Fairy Theft 32 Stealing Women and Children 36 Changelings 38 Deformities 39 Nurses 40 The Men of Peace 40 The Bean Nighe, or Washing Woman 42 The Song of the Fairy Woman 44 The Glaistig as distinct from the Banshi 44 Elfin Queen 45 Protection against Fairies 46 _CHAPTER II_ Tales Illustrative of Fairy Superstition Luran 52 The Cup of the Macleods of Raasa 57 The Fairies on Finlay’s Sandbank 57 Pennygown Fairies 59 Ben Lomond Fairies 60 Callum Clark and his Sore Leg 60 The Young Man in the Fairy Knoll 61 Black William the Piper 65 The Harris Woman and her Baking 66 Lifted by the Fairies 68 Fairies Coming to Houses 73 The Lowland Fairies 76 Fairies Stealing Women and Children 78 Ready Wit Repulses the Fairies 85 Kindness to a Neglected Child 86 The Bridegroom’s Burial 86 The Crowing of the Black Cock 87 Throwing the Arrow 88 The Woman Stolen from France 90 Changelings 90 Taking away Cows and Sheep 92 The Dwellings of the Fairies 93 Fairy Assistance 96 The Battle of Trai-Gruinard 100 Duine Sith, Man of Peace 101 Bean Shith, Elle Woman, or Woman of Peace 102 Donald Thrashed by the Fairy Woman 105 Iona Banshi 107 Tiree Banshi 108 Macphie’s Black Dog 109 The Carlin of the Spotted Hill 122 Donald, Son of Patrick 123 The Wife of Ben-y-Ghloe 125 Fairy Women and Deer 126 O’Cronicert’s Fairy Wife 127 The Gruagach Ban 132 Deer Killed and conveyed home at Night 133 Fairies and Goats 134 Fairies and Cows 134