WHOMEL'D, turned round and round (_lit._, upset). WHORLED, wheeled or spun. WIGHT, man or fellow. WIND A CLEW, a witchcraft rite in which a reel of coloured thread is wound. WINGLAN, walking feebly. WIRREIT, strangled. WIS, know. WITCH'S SABBATH, the gathering together of all the witches of Scotland on the evening between the first Friday and Saturday of April. WITHRE-SHINES, contrarily (_lit._, against the sun's course). WONS, dwells. WYLIE, wily. WYME, belly. WYTE, blame. Y YAIRD, yard or garden. YELL, barren, dry. YESTREEN, last night. YILL-BOAT, ale-barrel or brewing tub. YIRBS, herbs. YOWLED, howled. YULE, Christmas, also Hogmanay (December 31st). [Illustration] INDEX. A Abbey of Glenluce, 15, 61 Abbey of Holm-Cultram, 16 Abraham Crichton, Ghost of, 285 Abraham Crichton, Laying of ghost of, 287 Act against Witchcraft (1563), 66 Act for burying in Scots linen (1686), 220 Adder Beads, 55 Agnew, Sir Andrew, 245 Agnews of Galdenoch, 245 Aikieslak (Dalbeattie), 274 Aikendrum, 191 Alloway Kirk, 17 Annan River, 290 Auchabrick House (ghost legend), 250 Auchencairn, 300 Auchenmalg Barracks, 257 Auchensheen (Colvend), 185 Auchenstroan (Glencairn), 283 B Ballad--Prisoner of Spedlins, 291 Balmaghie, 46 Bard of Corrie, 213 "Bards of Galloway," 166 Barnamon (Stoneykirk), 37 Barncorkerie, 154 Barr, 13 Beadle (Sexton), 241 Bee Folklore, 218 Bell of St. Ninian (Clog Rinny), 243 Bellknowe of Penninghame, 243 Bengairn, 172 Bess o' Borgue, 17 Birns, 47 Bishop's Castle (Kirkmaiden), 154 Bishopton Crofts (Whithorn), 254 Blackaddie (Sanquhar), 51 Black Art, 10, 16 "Black Clud's Wyme," 16 Black Esk, 296 Blackett Tower (legend of spectre), 294 Bladnoch, 64 Blew Spot, 213 Blink o' an ill e'e, 26 "Bloody Bell," 295 "Bloody Passage" (Drumlanrig), 282 "Bluidy Brae," 73 Bodsbeck Ha', 188 Bogha (Balmaclellan), 72 Bogle-Hole (Dalry), 267 Bonshaw Tower, 294 "Book of Galloway," 62 Bower, Walter, Abbot of Inchcolm, 277 Boyd, Rev. Mr (Dalry, 1690), 34 Breath-blasting, 182 Brig o' Ken, 18 Brishie (Minnigaff), 185 "Brocken" of Dumfries and Galloway, 7 Brocklock Burn, 42 Brownie, The, 186 Brownie o' Blednoch, 149, 191 Brownie of Newabbey, 190 Buckland Burn, 270 Buckland Glen, Ghost of, 269 Buittle, 301 Burial without Coffins, 237 Burnfoot, 45 Burnes, William (father of Poet), funeral of, 234 C Caerlaverock Castle, 2, 10, 277 Cairn, 283 Cairnmon (Stoneykirk), 37 Cantrip Incantations, 58 Cardoness Castle, 151 Cardrain, Ghost of, 251 Carlin's Cairn, 35 Carrick, 13 Carsphairn Parish (origin of), 55 Castle-Douglas, 63 Cassencarry, 262 Changelings, 182 Charles the Second, 36 Charms against Witchcraft, 54 Churchyard Superstitions, 239 Cere-cloth, 227 Clash, The (Kirkmaiden), 23