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A strange book and the fairies. A man was visiting a friend in a nearby township. This friend gave him a strange book concerning the occult, and told him not to open it on the way home. However, a...

How music first came to the Western Isles. A widow's only son found a musical instrument on the seashore but got very depressed because he was unable to play it. His mother went to a 'sgoil-dhubh'...

How a butler's son tricked the landowner who banished him for theft. A butler to a Highland landowner had his son taken into service. Valuables began to go missing and the son was held responsible...

Dòmhnall Cam, Alasdair na Sàile Giorra, and the sheep's jawbone. Some devious folk got Dòmhnall Cam drunk and sent him away on a vessel to the mainland along with Alasdair na Sàile Giorra. They we...

Some particular action would have to take place before a spell could be broken. Some particular action would have to take place before a spell could be broken. The contributor gives an example of ...

Two Tiree weavers, Gilleabart and Coinneach Beag, selling their customers' cloth to make money. Gilleabart and Coinneach Beag are two weavers in Tiree. Instead of returning completed orders for cl...

A poor old couple's three wishes go wrong. A poor old couple lived near a fairy knoll. If anyone got into a knoll, they were granted three wishes. The old woman saw that it was open one night and ...

An omen of death: a light in a boat. The crew of a fishing boat saw a light in the stern of a boat. They pulled it up on the shore and abandoned it. It filled with water. Much later, children were...

How a man in Cape Breton who was lost was guided home by a stranger. A man in Cape Breton went for a walk and got lost in a wood. After several days he came to a loch with a headland jutting out i...

Warning to a distraught mother who had lost her child. A woman lost a child and cried excessively. On the day of the funeral, she stood crying in the room where the coffin had lain. Then she felt ...