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Fable: a creature refused shelter refuses it in turn. The Queen of the Bumbees [Bumblebees] was caught in a thunderstorm; her wings were soaked; she couldn't fly properly and couldn't get home. Sh...

A wild man is captured by filling a well with whisky. A wild hairy man lived in the Dunkeld area once. He often drank from a well in Dunkeld woods. Having failed to catch him for many years, the a...

Jack has his revenge on the Big Wind that has blown away his hay and thatch. An old woman and her son Jack had a small farm away in the north of Scotland. One night, the thatch blew off the roof a...

Willie refuses to marry Mary Ann, advising her to go home and tell her parents. She fears the disgrace of doing so, and decides she'd rather kill herself by drowning. One day, Willie discovers her ...

This song fragment is about the despair felt by someone having to leave their home in Donegal.

A ghost at the foot of the bed. When Bella Higgins was a child, her sister found a gold guard [chain] at Blair Atholl and their grandmother took it to a jeweller in Pitlochry, but missed her train...

Noises of the day heard again at night from a ruined chapel. There was a chapel above Jock Stewart's farm. The gentleman who built it hadn't been able to get anybody to come to it. Jock's children...

An expectant mother sees a shroud and has a white-haired baby. A young girl who was expecting a baby was coming home on a lonely road. A tree had fallen, and amongst the roots there was a shroud w...

In this song a musical evening at Bella [Belle Stewart]'s house is described, including the various singers. The fieldworker Maurice [Fleming] is mentioned. Hamish [Henderson] is missed to lead the...

The lady asks who owns all the wealth she sees, and is told it is Lord Bateman; she gives her young informant money. She asks for a piece of wedding cake and a glass of wedding wine and for him to ...