The _bodach_ (lit. a carle, an old man) is perhaps the commonest form of Baucan, so common that in some districts, _e.g._ the Lord Reay country (_Dùthaich Mhic Aoi_), as the seven parishes nearest to Cape Wrath are called, they have no other name for apparitions or terrifying objects seen at night. It is the figure of a man, who is no “living wight,” seen at night, and as may readily be imagined, this kind of apparition is frequently seen when children are obstreperous, querulous, or crying without cause, as their manner is. The Beckoning Old Man (_Bodach an Sméididh_) appears about the corners of houses, making signs with his hand for people to come to him. The _Corra-lòigein_, whatever his name may mean, stands in places which it is desirable to keep children from wandering to after dark, and will ill-treat any of whom it gets a hold. The principal of these _Lemures_ is “The Son of Platter-pool,” whose full title is, “The Son of Platter-pool from grey spike, silken spike, great caterpillar.”[32] This, as his name indicates, is really a frightful bugbear; he looks in at windows, flattens his face against the panes, sharpens his teeth with much noise, and takes away children in a twinkling, unless they keep quiet. Neither he, however, nor any of his brother bugbears, enter a house unless called in. The threat of doing so is generally quite sufficient to silence the most ill-grained child. FUATH. This word means literally aversion, hatred, but in Ross-shire is a common word to denote an apparition, ghost, spectre. In this latter sense, it is rare in Argyleshire. In the poem of the _Muireartach_ or _Muileartach_, which may be translated, “Western Sea,” foster-mother of Manus, King of Lochlin, describing her attack upon Fin MacCoul and his men, it is said: “The name of the daring spectre (fuath) Was the bold, red, white-maned Westlin Sea; Her face was dusky, of the hue of coal, The teeth of her jaws crooked red; In her head there glared a single eye, That swifter moved than bait-pursuing mackerel; And on her head there bristled dark-grey hair, Like brushwood covered with hoar-frost.”[33] The attributes of the _Fuath_ are different in different tales, and Mr. Campbell (_Tales of the West Highlands_, ii. 191) has fallen into the error of conjoining attributes ascribed in several stories, and representing the _Fuath_ as a water spirit, having web-feet, tail, mane, etc. The name of a desolate moor near Ullapool, in Ross-shire, “The Flat-stoned Declivity of Fuaths” (_Leathad leacanta nam Fuath_), is alone convincing it was not deemed particularly a water spirit. The following tales will illustrate the character of Highland hobgoblins and such-like objects of terror better than a lengthened disquisition. CACHLAIDH NA FEUSAIG, ISLAY.