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SUPERSTITIONS OF THEHIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND

PUBLISHED BY

JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, GLASGOW,

Publishers to the University.

MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON AND NEW YORK.

London,Simpkin, Hamilton and Co.
Cambridge,Macmillan and Bowes.
Edinburgh,Douglas and Foulis.

MCM.

Superstitions

of the

Highlands & Islands of Scotland

Collected entirely from Oral Sources

By
John Gregorson Campbell
Minister of Tiree

Glasgow
James MacLehose and Sons
Publishers to the University
1900

GLASGOW: PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE AND CO.

EDITOR’S NOTE.

This volume is the result of many years’ labour by the late Rev.John Gregorson Campbell, while minister of Tiree during theyears 1861—to 1891.

Much of the material was already collected before Mr. J. F. Campbellof Islay published his Popular Tales of the West Highlands in 1860,and readers of Lord Archibald Campbell’s volumes on Waifs and Straysof Celtic Tradition are already acquainted with the valuable workcontributed to that series by the Rev. J. Gregorson Campbell.

It is hoped that this volume on the Superstitions of the ScottishHighlands, full as it is of racy stories, may throw fresh light on anextremely interesting subject.

The MS. of a corresponding work by the same author onWitchcraft and Second-Sight in the West Highlands, is in the editor’shands, and in the event of the pres

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