Muirhead, Dr James, 107 Mull of Galloway, 149 Murder Fall (Kirkbean), 274 Myrton Mound (fairy legend), 161 M'Cullochs of Myrton, 214 M'Culloch, Sir Godfrey, 151 M'Millan Cup, 195 M'Milligan of Dalgarnock, 283 N "Necromancy," 16 Newabbey, Witchcraft at, 10 Newabbey (ghost of lady in white), 276 Nicholas Grier (witch of Hannayston), 17 Nick o' the Balloch, 13 "Nithsdale Minstrel" (poetical collection), 34 Nith, 51, 189 Nut Wood, Maxwelton (Moniaive), 283 Nicholson, Wm., poet (fairycraft examination, recollection by his mother), 159 O "Old Church life in Scotland" (Edgar), 237 Old Hall at Ecclefechan, Ghost at, 295 Old House of Park, 61 Old John Orr (Carlyle reminiscence), 293 Old Meg of Twynholm (reputed witch), 43 Old Red Cap (ghost of Blackett Tower), 294 Old Turnpike House, Dumfries, 231 Orchard, Hoddom (laying of ghost), 294 Osborne, "Maggie" (Wigtownshire witch), 11 P Packman's Grave (Bladnoch), 258 Palmallet (Whithorn), 96 Palnackie, 199 "Passing Bell" (custom of ringing), 241 Passing Bell (reference in "Book of Galloway"), 243 Patiesthorn, Legend of, 269 "Pawky Auld Kimmer," 65 Pentoot (Glencairn), 283 "Philosophy of the Devil," 16 Picts, 148, 149 Poldean, Wamphray (ghost reference), 287 Portankill (fairy haunt), 149 Porteous, ghost of, at Spedlins Tower, 289 Portencockerie Bay (fairy haunt), 156 Port Logan, 31, 156 Portpatrick, Legend of, 245 Port-William, 254 Presbytery of Penpont (warning regarding burial festivity abuse), 234 Prestonmill, 274 "Pricking" of Witches, 70 "Prince of Darkness" (and witch revelry), 8 Privy Council Commissions (to try cases of witchcraft), 71 R Rab's Howff (Rerwick), 45 Ray's Itinerary (Dumfries), 242 Red Comyn, 277 Rerwick, 44 Rerwick Apparition, 272, 321 Rhinns, 25 Rhonehouse, 40 "Riddling in the Reek," 166 "Ridden post by a witch," 5 Ringdoo Point, 15 Ringcroft of Stocking, 272 Ringcroft of Stocking, site of, 300 Robert the Bruce, 36 "Robin Goodfellow," 186 Roodmas, 176 Rotten Row (Whithorn), 33 S Sanquhar, 50 Sanquhar Castle (ghostly legends), 283 Sanquhar, History of (Simpson), 184, 285 Sanquhar Kirkyard, 240 "Satan's Almanac," 16 "Satan's Invisible World," 300 Scots Money, 227 Shaws of Craigenbay and Craigend, 35 Shawn (Stoneykirk), 185 Shennaton (Bladnoch), 64 Shinnel Water, 283 Shirmers, 269 Sin-eating, 218 Sir Chesney Shaw, 35 Sir Walter Scott, 16, 244 Slip Coffins, 237 Solway Firth, 8 "Soothsayers' Creed," 16 Spell-casting, 60 Spedlins Tower, Ghost of, 288 Spedlins Tower Bible, 291 St. Ninian, 39 Stake Moss, Sanquhar, 239 State and Church (action against witchcraft), 22 Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, 151 Stoneykirk, 36, 248 Suicides, Burial of, 239 Surprising Story of the Devil of Glenluce, 299, 302