Fifty Large paper copies are thrown off, printed on thick Crown Quarto, giving a handsome margin, and making altogether a handsome unique volume for the Library, or the Drawing-room table, of a work which the _Scotsman_, and all the press of the country, “recommended to the lovers of the marvellous as a sweet morsel”. On the 19th of October, 1881, the author of the Appendix on “The Superstition of the Highlanders” passed over the majority, regretted and loved by all who knew him. A. M. INVERNESS, _June, 1882_. CONTENTS. [Illustration] PAGE. DEDICATION iii PREFACE v CONTENTS vii GENERAL INTRODUCTION—How Kenneth became a Seer—Various Versions 1 PROPHECIES WHICH MIGHT BE ATTRIBUTED TO NATURAL SHREWDNESS 9 PROPHECIES UNFULFILLED 13 PROPHECIES AS TO THE FULFILMENT OF WHICH THERE IS A DOUBT 24 PROPHECIES WHOLLY OR PARTLY FULFILLED 28 SKETCH OF THE FAMILY OF SEAFORTH 61 SEAFORTH’S DOOM 68 SEAFORTH’S DREAM 71 THE SEER’S DEATH 77 FULFILMENT OF THE SEAFORTH PROPHECY 82 APPENDIX— General Superstition 95 Druidism 100 Fairies 104 Witchcraft 112 Second Sight 117 Smaller Superstitions 125 New-Year Customs 134 Easter Customs 135 May-day Customs 135 Hallowe’en 136 Sacred Wells and Lochs 147 [Illustration] THE PROPHECIES OF THE BRAHAN SEER: COINNEACH ODHAR FIOSAICHE.