Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
The book Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland was written by author Campbell, John Gregorson, 1836-1891 Here you can read free online of Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Superstitions of the Highlands & Islands of Scotland a good or bad book?
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They were accompanied by a dog. 8o TALES OF THE FAIRIES. and stood one on each side, having a hold of an ear and scratching it. Some say there was a crowd of ' little people ' behind to assist in taking the child away. For security the woman placed it between herself and the fire, but her precautions were not quite successful. From that night the child was slightly fatuous, ,' a half idiot ' {leth oinseacJi). The old woman, it is said, had the second sight. A shepherd, living with his wife in a... bothy far away among the hills of Mull, had an addition to his family. He was obliged to go for assistance to the nearest houses, and his wife asked him, before leaving her and her babe alone, to place the table beside the bed, and a portion of the various kinds of food in the house on it, and also to put the smoothing-iron below the front of the bed and the reaping-hook (buanaiche) in the window. Soon after he had left the wife heard a suppressed muttering on the floor and a voice urging some one to go up and steal the child.
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