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Examples of dreams as omens. Ella Walker doesn't like dreaming about babies, because it is a bad omen. Her aunt dreamt about horses before sad events. Ella has heard of people not liking to dream ...

An owl is the only bird the contributor has heard to be unlucky.

Story-telling in the sheep-smearing sheds. Men would tell stories as they smeared the sheep: ghost, drover, smuggling and comic stories. The contributor thinks the hero tales stopped being told lo...

A campfire song.

The contributor talks about the life of her aunt Margaret MacNaughton from Glenlyon, who was a Gaelic speaker.

Every smallholding used to grow its own lint and spin its own linen to make sheets and clothes.

The sound of tearing cloth as an omen of death. A woman who had a drapery shop always heard the sound of tearing cloth before a death. Whenever she heard it, someone came in soon after to buy clot...

A verse about hidden treasure at Craigard. Gold is supposed to be buried on an island in Glenlyon.

The place name 'Sloc an Eich Dhuibh'. The contributor does not know the story attached to the place name 'Sloc an Eich Dhuibh', but thinks it is connected with a water-horse.

A feud between MacDougall of Lorne and Chisholm of Strathglass. There was a feud between MacDougall of Lorne (Iain Dubh) and Chisholm of Strathglass. The Chisholms raided, but MacDougall had a fin...