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Why the sea became salty. At Easter time, a crofter by the name of Donald went to buy some ham. After the purchase, he was travelling home when he met a fairy. The fairy wished to exchange the ham...

Two men who requested land. When a piece of land became vacant, an old man and a young man wanted to get it. They went to Askernish House, and were told that the first one to arrive at the ruin on...

The landowner gave the gardener's son three tasks which he must achieve or lose his life. When a gardener's son took to thieving, the landowner banished him. He returned a year later, admitting th...

The lady who frightened the robbers by wearing a cow's stomach. A certain lady called Corra-chriosag was married to an old man named Plocan an Ruamhair. He killed a cow and salted it. She, unbekno...

The drunkard who thought that the priest would turn him into a rat. There was a drunkard who never left any money for his wife and children to live on. The priest told him that he would turn him i...

A story about a man who disciplined his bad wife and, in turn, her mother, who was bad to her own husband.

How a lawyer got his own back on a hotel-keeper. A lawyer by the name of O'Connell once stayed at a hotel. When paying the bill, the hotel-keeper overcharged him, and they fell out. O'Connell met ...

The fool and the king's daughter. A king promised his daughter in marriage to whoever could make her laugh three times. A widow's half-witted son, Iain, was given a cow by his uncle, and he decide...

The man who put horseshoes on a witch. A farmhand always found he was more tired when he woke than he was when he went to bed, even though he had fallen asleep immediately. Another farmhand slept ...

Iain mac Alasdair and the man who pretended to be dead. Iain mac Alasdair stopped at inn on way to Falkirk with cattle. He stopped for the night, but was pursued by two riders. He went to a cottag...