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An account of a witty exchange between a woman and two bards.

Jack Frost helped an ill-treated girl to survive the cold. A Harris man and his daughter went abroad to a cold country. The daughter was ill-treated by her foster mother. She sent the father out w...

A young man releases a woman from enchantment as a ghost by meeting her for a week. Jack, a farmer's son, went to meet his sweetheart, Meg, every Sunday for three years. One night he met a beautif...

The Howbeg poacher and the devil. A fellow called Donald from Howbeg was out poaching alone on the river, when a big, dark man joined him. The poacher began to get lots of fish and a stranger said...

How Ossian got and lost his wife, how he regained his strength when living with Para Naomh Clèireach, and how he died. A woman came to the Fingalian's three sheiling bothies and asked for shelter....

The King of France's son and the Maraiche Màirneal. The King of France's wife died and he remarried. His new wife didn't know he had a son until the hen-wife told her. She gave him a multicoloured...

The owner of the big house's daughter marries the widow's son, despite her father's efforts to come between them by sending him abroad. When the owner of the big house discovered that his daughter...

A traveller overcame a robber. Three fellow travellers were on the road together. Two of them were very careful about their money; the third was less careful. The two went on ahead while the third...

Story about a minister who was given milk laced with a drop of something. A minister visited a farmhouse and the farmer told his wife not to give him a drink, because he was teetotal. She gave him...

Lachlann overcomes the power of witchcraft. A Skye witch turned her daughter into a crow to sail with a Uist boat and do harm. The daughter accompanied the boat all the way to Uist but failed to d...