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Scenes and legends of the north of Scotland : $b or, The traditional history of Cromarty — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi

Scenes and legends of the north of Scotland : $b or, The traditional history of Cromarty

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Remains of the Old Mythology--The Devotional Sentiment--Interesting
    Usages--Rites of the Scottish Halloween--The Charm
    of the Egg--The Twelfth Rig--Macculloch’s Courtship--The
    Extinct Spectres--Legend of Morial’s Den--The Guardian Cock,      55

    CHAPTER VI.

    A Scottish Town of the 17th Century--The Old Castle of the
    Urquharts--Hereditary Sheriffship,                                75

    CHAPTER VII.

    Sir Thomas Urquhart,                                              86

    CHAPTER VIII.

    The Reformation--Outbreaking at Rosemarkie--Sir John Urquhart
    of Craigfintrie--The Ousted Ministers--Mr. Fraser of
    Brea--Luggie,                                                    105

    CHAPTER IX.

    The Chaplain’s Lair,                                             124

    CHAPTER X.

    The Curates--Donald Roy of Nigg--The Breaking of the Burgh--George
    Earl of Cromartie--The Union,                                    143

    CHAPTER XI.

    Important Events which affect the Religious Character--Kenneth
    Ore--Thomas Hogg and the Man-horse--The Watchman of
    Cullicuden--The Lady of Ardvrock--The Lady of Balconie,          157

    CHAPTER XII.

    The Fisherman’s Widow,                                           177

    CHAPTER XIII.

    The Story of John Feddes--Andrew Lindsay,                        194

    CHAPTER XIV.

    The Chapel of St. Regulus--Macleod the Smuggler--The Story of
    Sandy Wood,                                                      209

    CHAPTER XV.

    The Poor Lost Lad--A Ballad in Prose--Morrison the Painter,      221

    CHAPTER XVI.

    The Economy of Accident--The Black Years--Progress of the
    Pestilence--The Quarantine--The Cholera,                         235

    CHAPTER XVII.

    Martinmas Market--The Herring Drove--The Whale-Fishers--The
    Flight of the Drove--Urquhart of Greenhill--Poem--William
    Forsyth--The Caithness Man’s Leap,                               250

    CHAPTER XVIII.

    Sandy Wright and the Puir Orphan,                                267

    CHAPTER XIX.

    Tarbat Ness--Stine Bheag o’ Tarbat,                              279

    CHAPTER XX.

    The Mermaid--The Story of John Reid--Maculloch the Corn-Agent--The
    Washing of the Mermaid,                                          290

    CHAPTER XXI.

    The Bad Year--Sandison’s Spulzie--The Meal Mob,                  305

    CHAPTER XXII.

    The Forty-Five--Nanny Miller’s Onslaught--The Retreat--The
    Battle of Culloden--Old John Dunbar--Jacobite Psalm,             319

    CHAPTER XXIII.

    The Dropping Cave--The Legend of Willie Millar--A Boy
    Adventurer--Fiddler’s Well,                                      329

    CHAPTER XXIV.

    Wars of the Town’s-people--Maculloch the Lawyer--The
    Law-Plea--Roderick and the Captain--Mr. Henderson,               342

    CHAPTER XXV.