Witches as cats, tales, 18, 34 as cormorants, tale, 43 as gulls, tale, 23, tale, 42 as hares, tales, 33 as rats, 42 as sheep, 10, 30 as whales, tale, 44 bribes to, 2 celebrated, 50 definition, 2 delaying birth of child, 45 destruction of Captain Forrest’s ship, 27 disguised as a hare, 8 doings of, 5 etymology, 4 going to sea, 15 how to detect, 53 knots to raise the winds, 19 little witch, the, tale, 22 on Beltane eve, 270 plants and trees as protection against, 103 Portree witches sinking a boat, 22 powerless on Wednesdays, 296 raising storms and destroying people, 19 sinking a vessel by means of a dish of milk, 21 their own belief in witchcraft, 3, 58 transformations of, 6 use of tar, 13 using clay corpses, 46 witches and milk, 7 wounded by silver, 30, 49 Wizard rising after death, 52 head-stone, 53 Year, Celtic, 224 of the Silverweed roots, 290 “Yellow Claws,” 23, 26, 51