Those who are interested in our west Highlands and Islands—and who is not?—will find Mr. Campbell’s book a perfect mine of strange, weird stories and legends, the latter entirely characteristic of the people, the former dealing with magic, divination, and the superstitions of fairyland. Indeed it takes a place by itself, and a very important place, in our folk-lore literature.—_THE BAILIE._ The tales are very diversified. They relate to the “fairies” and the superstitions regarding them. A chapter is devoted to augury, another to premonitions and divination, to dreams and prophecies, to imprecations, spells, and the black art. In short we have a very varied and manifold collection of Highland beliefs told with great freshness and vividness.—_OBAN TIMES._ Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University London and New York: Macmillan and Co., Limited * * * * * * WITCHCRAFT AND SECOND SIGHT IN THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND * * * * * * PUBLISHED BY JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW, Publishers to the University. MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD., LONDON. _New York_, _The Macmillan Co._ _London_, _Simpkin, Hamilton and Co._ _Cambridge_, _Macmillan and Bowes_. _Edinburgh_, _Douglas and Foulis_. MCMII. * * * * * * WITCHCRAFT & SECOND SIGHT IN THE HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND Tales and Traditions collected entirely from Oral Sources by the late JOHN GREGORSON CAMPBELL Author of “Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland” Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University 1902 Glasgow: Printed at the University Press by Robert Maclehose and Co. CONTENTS PAGE _CHAPTER I_ Black Witchcraft Introductory 1 Witches and Milk 7 Counter-Charms 10 Going to Sea 15 Raising Storms and Drowning People 19 Witches as Sheep 30 Witches as Hares 33 Witches as Cats 34 Witches as Rats 42 Witches as Gulls 42 Witch as Cormorant 43 Witches as Whales 44 Delaying the Birth of a Child 45 Clay Corpse 46