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A wicked stepmother inadvertently has her own daughter killed. A long time ago, the man who occupied a castle at Weem was widowed, and remarried. He had a daughter, and his new wife also had a dau...

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...

Piety saves a youth from his father's pact with a mysterious stranger. An old fisherman and his wife and their neighbours were starving as there were no fish to be had. A gentleman came to the riv...

The heel of a loaf preferable to the farmer's wife. A stallion driver was put up at a farm for the night. He was given a cup of tea, but nothing to eat with it; the baker hadn't come that day. The...

A spirit returns to carry off a tormenting child. Two families of Travellers spent the night in a barn. Next morning, a little girl was tormenting a boy by tickling him. Many years later, when she...

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...

A crippled tailor walks again after spending a night in a graveyard and seeing a ghost. At Lochawe, there was a crippled tailor who was a laughing stock. Some fellows bet him the price of a suit o...

Travellers have a narrow escape from burkers. When Jock Stewart was a young boy, his father, a tinsmith, sent him, with his sister and niece, to deliver goods that had been ordered in the countrys...

Appearances of a phantom dog. A strange dog appeared to Jock Stewart on two occasions, seven years apart, in different places. On the first occasion he and his wife were at Loch Tay, at about elev...