“Enticing plant, the,” 106
Envy splits the rocks, 63
_Etymological Dictionary of Scottish Language_, 254
Events happening at a distance, 149
Evil Eye, 59
Cure for, tale, 60
dangers of the, 61
danger for a horse, 62
how to detect the victim, 60
incantations to counteract, 63
precautions against, 59
stone for the cure of the, 93
Ewen M’Corkindale or Ewen of the Dirk, tale, 190
Ewen and the Carlin Wife, tale, 198
Ewen and the Skull, tale, 200
Fairies, 1
February, 245
Festival of Fools in Paris, 243
“Fetch,” or coffins, 119
Fin MacCoul, 188
Fish procured by witchcraft, 17
Flounders, 18
Friday, 297
Good Friday, 262, 298
Frog Stone, 89
Fulfilment of visions, 157, 158, 159, 160
Funeral processions, 128, 155, 156
Gaelic customs on festivals, 229
etymologies, 224
divisions of time, 225
Gaelic months and seasons, 224 to 307
Games to divine the future, 282
Gaura, battle of, 205
Hero of battle, 206
Gelding season, 251
Ghosts
Donald Gorm’s Ghost, tale, 211
Drowned man’s Ghost, tale, 214 and 215
“Gospel,” 94
Hidden ploughshare, tale, 213
Laying a, 222,
in name of Duke of Argyle, 223
of the living, 124
Shadows, 221
Song of a, 179
Silent horseman, 221
Glen Erochty, 203
Goblins, 220
Good Friday, 262, 298
_Gregory’s Western Highlands_, 211
Grey Paw, the, tale, 194
Gulls, 23, 42
Hallowe’en night, 144
Hallowmas, 284, 297, 307
Handsel Monday, 245
Hares, 8, 33
Haunted houses, 217
seer, 137, 148, 161
_Highland Society’s Dictionary_, 226, 244
Henderson’s Gloves, tale, 135
Hobgoblins, 181
Baucan, 181, 182
Bodach, 187, 190
dogs and horses, tales, 185, 215
Etiquette when meeting a, 184
Fuath, 188
Haunts of, 183
precursor of Death, 182
refuge from, 184
safety in a circle against, 185
Hogg’s _Witch of Fife_, 36
Holly whipping, 232
Horses
as spectre-seers, 163
fright of a horse, tale, 165
horse as an omen of Death, 117
men changed into, 49
phantom horse, 111
safe from witches, 13 and 185
saved by incantations, 63
Horse-shoe protection against witchcraft, 12
Hot month, 279
Hugh of the Little Head, tale, 111
Hugh M’Lachlan of Aberdeen, 250
Hugh, son of Donald the Red, tale, 147
Hump-backed Blue-eye or Gormla, 23, 26, 50
Ian Garve, tale, 25
Ignes Fatui, 171
Ile, tale, 177
Juniper, 11,
incantations, 105, 242
Kate MacIntyre, 51
King Frog, 89
Lachlan Mor, 139
Lachlan the Wily, 112
Lady day, 261
Laird of Coll, tale, 8, 139, 146, 180
Lent, 258
_Lhuyd’s Archæologia Britannica_, 230, 258, 264, 269, 294
Linlithgow, 279
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