Little Spring of Whelks, 247 Lochan Doimeig, 208 Lochbuy, 112, 118 Lochlin’s daughter, 100 Loch Ma Nàr, 101 Macaulay, Lord, 198 MacCannel, 173 Macdonald, Lord, 23, 48, 173 Macdonall or MacCuïl and the Headless Body, tale, 191 Macdougall of Lorn, 113 Macfadyens, 113, 194 MacGilvray, freed from witchcraft, tale, 47 MacGregor, 35, 110 MacIain Ghiarr, 47 _MacIntosh’s Gaelic Proverbs_, 297, 301 Maclachlan Clan, 110, 170 Maclaine, 113 MacLean, 118 Maclean, Hector, tale, 30 M’Lean of Coll, 102, 139 MacLean of Dowart, 27, 76, 117, 139 Bewitched clay figure of, 47 his bargain with a shade, 178 clan, 276 Nose of the, 136 Song of the, 115 _M’Leod and Dewar’s Dictionary_, 250 MacNeills, 21 “Macpherson of power,” legend, 20 Macpherson, 206 MacRanald, 21 Magic staff, 6 Malicious spectres, 133, 135 Manaman MacLeth, 83 _Martin’s “Western Highlands”_, 248 Martin of the Bag’s day, 277 Martinmas, 274 Maundy-Thursday, 261 May, 272, 273 May Day, 267 Mountain ash, 11, 242 Meyer, 88 Michaelmas, 281 Midsummer’s Eve, 276 Milk carried in a seaweed, 9 Monday, 292 Moon, 304 Nails, 176 New Year’s Day customs, 238, 241 fire, 237 night, 236 rhyme, 234 Nightly assignations with spectres, 130, tale, 132 with spirits, tale, 175, 201, tale, 203 Noises depression of a seer caused by, 151 forerunners of funerals, 154 heard by people not taïshers, 152 wailing, sign of death, 166 Old Wife, 253 Omens, 145 Oswy, King of Northumbria, 263 Otter, 89 Paschal Lamb, 254 _Peacock’s Guide to the Isle of Man_, 70 Pearlwort, 15, 71 its uses, 103 to prevent the return of the dead, 172 Pennant, 89, 243, 271, 274 Pet Ram, the, tale, 217 Phœnicians, 87, 268 Pins, used to free cows from witchcraft, 14 Quartodecimans, 263 “Rag,” the, or the Lakelet of Black Trout, tale, 208 Rats, 42 _Red Book of Appin_, 13 Red-Headed Donald, 216 Red Hector of the Battles, 76 Return of the Dead, 172, 210, 215 Rhymes, 56 New Year, 234 of the wind, 237 Riddle of the Four Seasons, 225 Roman Calendar, 263 Ronag, or ball of hair, 11 Roodmas, 280 St. Brendan’s Eve, 275 St. Brendan the Elder, 274 St. Bride’s Day, tale, 247 St. Bride’s Rhyme, 249 St. Fillan, legend of, 98 St. Finan’s Eve, 289 St. John’s Eve, 276 St. John’s wort, incantation, 104 St. Kessock’s Day, 259, 290 St. Patrick’s Day, 250, 259 St. Swithin’s Day, 277 Scott, Sir Walter, 87, 193 Michael, 200, 256 Second Sight, 120 hereditary, 126, 131 marriage foreseen by, 147 to get rid of, 180 Seed time, 255