_Tannas_, or _tannasg_, a spectre, generally of the dead, and in the idea attached to it more shadowy, unsubstantial, and spiritual than a _Bòchdan_. _Tamhasg_ (pron. _taüsg_), the shade or double of a living person, is the common name for apparitions by which men are haunted, and with which, according to the doctrine of the second sight, they have to hold assignations. _Tàchar_, a rare and almost obsolete word, but the derivatives of which, _tacharan_ and _tachradh_, are still in common use. The only instances known to the writer of its occurrence are in the names of places. _Sròn an tàchair_, the Ghost-haunted Nose, is a rock between Kinloch Rannoch and Druim-a-chastail, in Perthshire, where faint mysterious noises were heard, and on passing which the wayfarer was left by the mysterious sprite which joined him in the hollow below. _Imire tàchair_, in the island of Iona, is a ridge leading from near the ecclesiastical buildings to the hill, and, till the moor through which it runs was drained in recent years, formed an elevation above a sheet of water,—a very likely place to have been haunted by goblins. The natives of the island have no tradition or explanation of the name. The derivatives _tachradh_ and _tacharan_ are applied to a weak and helpless person: when the first syllable is long, in pity; when short, contemptuously, as, _e.g._, _an tăchradh grànda_, “the ugly wretch.” _Tàslaich_, a supernatural premonition, felt or heard, but not seen. Also applied to the ghosts of the living. For instance, a native of Skye being asked the reason why dogs were barking at night near a churchyard, said it was because they saw _tàslaich nan daoine beò_, the ghosts of the living, the premonition of a funeral. _Tàradh_, noises (_straighlich_) heard at night through the house, indicating a change of tenants, a premonition by mysterious sounds of a coming event. _Taran_, the ghost of an unbaptised child (Dr. Macpherson, p. 307), not now a common word. _Tàsg_, perhaps a contraction of _tamhasg_, used commonly in the expression _eigheach tàisg_, the cry or wail of a fetch. Cf. _taghairm_, the spirit-call.