The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 08 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE BROWNIE AND THE THIEVISH MAIDS. 1 ONE of the principal characteristics of the brownie was his anxiety about the moral conduct of the household to which he was attached. He was a spirit very p. 180 much inclined to prick up his ears...
Stories Of Animals. The Fox's Stratagem : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FOX'S STRATAGEM. THE fox is very wise indeed. I don't know whether it is true or not, but an old fellow told me that he had seen him go to a loch where there were p. 92 wild ducks, and take a bunch of heather in his mouth then go...
Fairy Tales. The Poor Man Of Peatlaw : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE POOR MAN OF PEATLAW. 1 THE following is an account of a fairy frolic said to have happened late in the last century:--The victim of elfin sport was a poor man, who, being employed p. 128 in pulling heather upon Peatlaw, a hill...
Fairy Tales. The Fairies Of Scotland : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 108 FAIRY TALES. THE FAIRIES OF SCOTLAND. 1 THE Fairies of Scotland are represented as a diminutive race of beings, of a mixed, or rather dubious nature, capricious in their dispositions, and mischievous in their resentment. They...
Comic Tales. The Witty Exploits Of Mr. George : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE WITTY EXPLOITS OF MR. GEORGE BUCHANAN, THE KING'S FOOL. 1 I. MR. GEORGE BUCHANAN was a Scotsman born, and though of mean parentage, made great progress in learning. As for his understanding and ready wit, he excelled all men then...
Stories Of Animals. The Fox Outwitted : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 90 STORIES OF ANIMALS. 1 THE FOX OUTWITTED. ONE day the fox succeeded in catching a fine fat goose asleep by the side of a loch; he held her by the wing, and making a joke of her cackling, hissing, and fears, he said-- "Now, if you...
Fairy Tales. The Laird O' Co : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE LAIRD O' CO'. 1 IN the days of yore, the proprietors of Colzean, in Ayrshire, were known in that county by the title of "Lairds o' Co'", a name bestowed on Colzean from some co's (or coves) in the rock underneath the castle. One...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 05 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], GRAHAM OF MORPHIE. 1 THE old family of the Grahams of Morphie was in former times very powerful, but at length they sunk in fortune, and finally the original male line became extinct. Among the old women of the Mearns, their decay is...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 12 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 203 FATLIPS. 1 ABOUT fifty years ago, an unfortunate female wanderer took up her residence in a dark vault, among the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, which during the day, she never quitted. When night fell, she issued from this miserable...
Witchcraft. The Missing Web : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE MISSING WEB. 1 "SOME time since, when calling at the house of one of my oldest parishioners, who had been a handloom weaver, he fell to speak of other days; and, amongst other things, he told me of the disappearance, some years back...
Literary Tales. The Haunted Ships : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 312 LITERARY TALES. 1 THE HAUNTED SHIPS. 2 "ALEXANDER MACHARG, besides being the laird of three acres of peatmoss, two kale gardens, and the owner of seven good milch cows, a pair of horses, and six pet sheep, was the husband of one...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 13 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE TWO SHEPHERDS. 1 THERE, were out between Lochaber and Baideanach two shepherds who were neighbours to each p. 201 other) and the one would often be going to see the other. One was on the east side of a river, and another on the west...
Nursery Stories. The Croodin Doo : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE CROODIN DOO. 1 2 "WHERE hae ye been a' the day, My bonny wee croodin doo?" "O I hae been at my stepmother's house; Make my bed, mammie, now! Make my bed, mammie, now!" "Where did ye get your dinner, My bonny wee croodin doo?" "I got...
Nursery Stories. The Fause Knight And The Wee Boy : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FAUSE KNIGHT AND THE WEE BOY. 1 "O WHERE are ye gaun?" Quo' the fause knight upon the road; I'm gaun to the schule," Quo' the wee boy, and still he stude. p. 82 "What is that upon your back?" Quo' the fause knight upon the road;...
Fairy Tales. The Fairy And The Bible Reader : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FAIRY AND THE BIBLE-READER. 1 ON a still Sabbath evening in summer, an old man was seated, reading his Bible in the open air, at a quiet spot upon the Ross-shire coast. A beautiful little lady, clad in green, drew near...
Fairy Tales. Sir Godfrey Macculloch : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], SIR GODFREY MACCULLOCH. 1 THE Scottish Fairies, in like manner, sometimes reside in subterranean abodes, in the vicinity of human habitations, or, according to the popular phrase, under the "door-stane," or threshold; in which situati...
Stories Of Animals. How The Wolf Lost His Tail : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], HOW THE WOLF LOST HIS TAIL. Own day the wolf and the fox were out together, and they stole a dish of crowdie. Now the wolf was p. 94 the biggest beast of the two, and he had a long tail like a greyhound, and great teeth. The fox w...
Stories Of Animals. The Two Foxes : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE TWO FOXES. A MAN WAS one day walking along the road with a creel of herrings on his back, and two foxes saw him, p. 97 and the one, who was the biggest, said to the other, "Stop thou here, and follow the man, and I will run round...
Title Page : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], SCOTTISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES Selected And Edited With An Introduction By SIR GEORGE DOUGLAS [b. 1856 D. 1935] A. L. Burt Company, New York [1901?] Scanned, Proofed And Formatted April, 2003, By J. B. Hare. This Text Is In The Public...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 09 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE BROWNIE OF BODSBECK. 1 Tim brownie of the farmhouse of Bodsbeek, in Moffatdale, left his employment upwards of a century ago, on a similar account. He had exerted himself so much in the f arm labour, both in and out of p. 179 doors...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 03 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE MERMAID WIFE. 2 A STORY is told of an inhabitant of Unst, who, in walking on the sandy margin of a voe, 3 saw a number of mermen and mermaids dancing by moonlight, and several seal-skins strewed beside them on the ground. At his...
Fairy Tales. The Two Young Ploughmen : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 133 THE TWO YOUNG PLOUGHMEN. 1 "You have been often at the Gatehouse," said Johnny Nicholson; "well, you'll mind a flat piece of land near Enrick farm; well, that was once a large loch; a long way down from there is still the ru...
Stories Of Animals. The Fox And The Wrens : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FOX AND THE WRENS. A FOX had noticed for some days a family of wrens, off which he wished to dine. He might have been satisfied with one, but he was determined to have the whole lot--father and eighteen sons,--and all so like th...
Nursery Stories. The Milk White Doo : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE MILK-WHITE DOO. 1 2 THERE was once a man that wrought in the fields, and had a wife, and a son, and a dochter. One day he caught a hare, and took it hame to his wife, and bade her make it ready for his dinner. While it w...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 07 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE BOGLE. 1 THIS is a freakish spirit, who delights rather to perplex and frighten mankind than either to serve or seriously to hurt them. "Shellycoat", a spirit who resides in the waters, and has given his name to many a rock...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 11 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 205 THE SILLY MUTTON. COME, draw your chairs up to the fire, and listen to the tale I am about to tell. But mind and put three pocket-handkerchiefs on the table beside me, neither more nor less, and don't forget your own, for sad...
Fairy Tales. Mind The Crooked Finger : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], "MIND THE CROOKED FINGER." 1 BILL ROBERTSON, t. 71, residing in Lerwick, soberly narrated this trowy story:-- "My midder, God rest her soul, tauld me this, and she nedder could nor wid ha' tauld me a lee. Sh wis staying wi' freends...
Witchcraft. Macgillichallum Of Razay : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 218 WITCHCRAFT. MACGILLICHALLUM OF RAZAY. 1 JOHN GARVE MACGILLICHALLUM, of Razay, was an ancient hero of great celebrity. Distinguished in the age in which he lived for the gallantry of his exploits, he has often been selected by...
Witchcraft. The Farmer's Wife Of Deloraine : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FARMER'S WIFE OF DELORAINE. 2 WITCHCRAFT is not named in the next story, but we can scarcely be wrong in assuming it to be the agent at work in it. We must premise that it was, perhaps still is, customary in the Lowlands of Scotl...
Fairy Tales. Habitrot : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 115 HABITROT. 1 IN the old days, when spinning was the constant employment of women, the spinning-wheel had its, presiding genius or fairy. Her Border name was Habitrot, and Mr. Wilkie tells the following legend about her:...
Comic Tales. The Wee Bunnock : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 270 COMIC TALES. THE WEE BUNNOCK. 1 Some tell about their sweethearts, how they tirled them to the winnock, 2 But I'll tell you a bonny tale about a guid aitmeal bunnock." THERE lived an auld man and an auld wife at the side o'...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 15 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE YOUNG LAIRD OF LORNTIE. 1 THE young Laird of Lorntie, in Forfarshire, was one evening returning from a hunting excursion, attended by a single servant and two greyhounds, when, in passing a solitary lake, which lies about three...
Stories Of Animals. Alexander Jones : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 99 ALEXANDER JONES. "JEAN, sit a wee bit east," requested the town-clerk, between the puffs of his pipe, as he sat on the corner of the bench before his fire one chilly evening. "You're taking ower muckle room, and mair than your...
Nursery Stories. Marriage Of Robin Redbreast : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], MARRIAGE OF ROBIN REDBREAST AND THE WREN. 3 THERE was an auld grey Poussie Baudrons, 4 and she gaed awa' down by a water-side, and there she saw a wee Robin Redbreast happin' on a brier; and Poussie Baudrons says: "Where's tu gaun, wee...
Nursery Stories. The Strange Visitor : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE STRANGE VISITOR. 2 A WIFE, was sitting at her reel ae night; And aye she sat, and aye she reeled, and aye she wished for company. In came a pair o' braid braid soles, and sat down at the fireside; And aye she sat, etc. In came...
Fairy Tales. The Fairy's Song : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FAIRY'S SONG. 2 "O where is tiny Hew? And where is little Len? And where is bonnie Lu, And Menie of the Glen ? And where's the place of rest-- The ever changing hame ? Is it the gowan's breast, Or 'neath the bells of faem? Ay lu l...
Stories Of Animals. Frog And Crow : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], FROG AND CROW. HERE is a bit of crow language,--a conversation with a frog. When it is repeated in Gaelic it can be made absurdly like the notes of the creatures. p. 95 "Ghille Criosda mhic Dhughail cuir a nois do mhg." Christ's servant...
Witchcraft. The Witch Of Laggan : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE WITCH OF LAGGAN. 1 THE same day, another hero, celebrated for his hatred of witchcraft, was warming himself in his hunting hut, in the forest of Gaick, in Badenoch. p. 222 [paragraph continues] His faithful hounds, fatigued with...
Stories Of Animals. The Two Mice : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE TWO MICE. THERE was a mouse in the hill, and a mouse in a farm. "It were well," said the hill mouse, "to be in the farm, where one might get things." Said the farm mouse, "Better is peace."
Literary Tales. Rat Hall : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], RAT HALL 2 "RATS leaving, their usual haunts in your houses, barns, and stackyards, and going to the fields, is an unfortunate omen for the person whose abode they leave." So wrote one Wilkie, author of a manuscript collection of old...
Comic Tales. The Ploughman's Glory. Or, Tom's Song : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE PLOUGHMAN'S GLORY; OR, TOM'S SONG. As I was a-walking one morning in the spring, I heard a young ploughman so sweetly to sing, And as he was singing these words he did say, No life is like the ploughman's in the month of May...
Nursery Stories. The Story Of The White Pet : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 67 NURSERY STORIES. THE STORY OF THE WHITE PET. 1 THERE was a farmer before now who had a White Pet, 2 and when Christmas was drawing near, he thought that he would kill the White Pet. The White Pet heard that, and he thought he...
Fairy Tales. Fairy Transportation : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 126 FAIRY TRANSPORTATION. 1 THE power of the fairies was not confined to unchristened children alone; it was supposed frequently to be extended to full-grown persons, especially such as in an unlucky hour were devoted to the devil by...
Stories Of Animals. The Grouse Cock And His Wife : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE GROUSE COCK AND HIS WIFE. THE Grouse Cock and his wife are always disputing, and may be heard on any fine evening or early morning quarrelling and scolding about the stock of food. p. 96 This is what the hen says-- "FAIC THUSA 'N L...
Stories Of Animals. The Wren's Presumption : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE WREN'S PRESUMPTION. THOU'RT lessened by that, said the Wren, when he dipped his beak in the sea.
Fairy Tales. The Fairy And The Miller's Wife : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FAIRY AND THE MILLER'S WIFE. 1 ONE day as a mother was sitting rocking her baby to sleep, she was surprised, on looking up, to see a lady of elegant and courtly demeanour, so unlike any one she had ever seen in that part...
Introduction : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 6 p. 7 INTRODUCTION. IT is only within comparatively recent years that the homely stories in the mouths of the country-people have been constituted a branch of learning, and have had applied to them, as such, the methods...
Fairy Tales. Redemption From Fairy Land : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], REDEMPTION FROM FAIRY LAND. 2 NEAR the town of Aberdeen, in Scotland, lived James Campbell, who had one daughter, named p. 139 [paragraph continues] Mary, who, was married to John Nelson, a young man of that neighbourhood. Shortly after...
Fairy Tales. The Tulman : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 120 p. 121 THE TULMAN. 1 THERE was a woman in Baile Thangusdail, and she was out seeking a couple of calves; and the night and lateness caught her, and there came rain and tem. pest, and she was seeking shelter. She went to a knoll...
Stories Of Animals. The Eagle And The Wren : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE EAGLE AND THE WREN. 1 THE Eagle and the Wren once tried who could fly highest, and the victor was to be king of the birds. So the Wren flew straight up, and the Eagle flew in great circles, and when the Wren was tired he settled...
Witchcraft. The Miller Of Holdean : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE MILLER OF HOLDEAN. 1 WHILE the miller of Holdean, in Berwickshire, was drying a melder 2 of oats, belonging to a neighbouring farmer, tired with the fatigues of the day, he threw himself down upon some straw in the kiln-barn...
Fairy Tales. Water Fairies : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], WATER FAIRIES. 1 THE Drac are a sort of water-spirits who inveigle women and children into the recesses which they inhabit, beneath lakes and rivers, by floating past them, on the surface of the water, in the shape of gold rings or cups...
Comic Tales. Lothian Tom : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], LOTHIAN TOM. 1 I. TOM being grown up to years and age of man, thought himself wiser and slyer than his father; and there were several things about the house which he liked better than to work; so he turned to be a dealer amongst brutes...
Fairy Tales. Thom And Willie : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THOM AND WILLIE. 2 THOM and Willie, two young fisher-mates of Lunna, in Shetland, were rivals for the hand of the fair Osla, daughter of Jarm. Now it so happened that, one October afternoon, they took their hand-lines and went out...
Stories Of Animals. The Bee And The Mouse : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE BEE AND THE MOUSE. A BEE met a mouse and said-- "Come over till we, make a house." "I will not," said Luchag, the mousie. "He to whom thou gavest thy summer honey, Let him make a winter house for thee; I have a little house under...
Fairy Tales. The Fairy Boy Of Leith : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FAIRY BOY OF LEITH. 1 THE worthy Captain George Burton communicated to Richard Bovet, gentleman, author of the interesting work entitled "Pandmonium, or the Devil's Cloister Opened", 2 the following singular account of a lad called...
Fairy Tales. The Faithful Purse Bearer : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 152 THE FAITHFUL PURSE-BEARER. A TALE of the times of old. Far away in the north, where the purple heath spreads as thick on the hills in summer as the snow lies white in winter, where the streams flow down the granite-strewn corries...
Nursery Stories. The Tempted Lady : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE TEMPTED LADY. 2 "Noo, lasses, ye should never be owre proud; for ye see there was ance a leddy, and she was aye fond o' being brawer than other folk; so she gaed awa' to take a walk ae day, her and her brother: so she met wi'...
Nursery Stories. The Cattie Sits In The Kiln : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE CATTIE SITS IN THE KILN-RING SPINNING. 1 THE cattie sits in the kiln-ring, Spinning, spinning; And by came a little wee mousie, Rinning, rinning. Oh, what's that you're spinning, my loesome, Loesome lady?" p. 76 "I'm spinning a sark...
Stories Of Animals. The Fox Troubled With Fleas : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 91 THE FOX TROUBLED WITH FLEAS. The fox is much troubled by fleas, and this is the way in which he gets rid of them. He hunts about till he finds a lock of wool, and then he takes it to the river, and holds it in his mouth, and so...
Literary Tales. Elphin Irving : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], ELPHIN IRVING. 1 THE FAIRIES' CUPBEARER. THE romantic vale of Corriewater, in Annandale, is regarded by the inhabitants, a pastoral and unmingled p. 319 people, as the last Border refuge of those beautiful and capricious beings...
Stories Of Animals. The Fox And The Bag Pipes : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE FOX AND THE BAG-PIPES. THE fox, being hungry one day, found a bag-pipe, and proceeded to eat the bag, which is generally, or was till lately, made of hide. There was still a remnant of breath in the bag, and when the fox bit it...
Witchcraft. The Blacksmith's Wife Of Yarrowfoot : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 228 THE BLACKSMITH'S WIFE OF YARROWFOOT. 1 SOME years back, the blacksmith of Yarrowfoot had for apprentices two brothers, both steady lads, and, when bound to him, fine healthy fellows. After a few months, however, the younger...
Fairy Tales. The Isle Of Pabaidh : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE ISLE OF PABAIDH. 2 THERE came a woman of peace (a fairy) the way of the house of a man in the island of Pabaidh, and p. 122 she had the hunger of motherhood on her. He gave her food, and that went well with her. She stayed th...
Comic Tales. The Tale Of The Shifty Lad : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 275 THE TALE OF THE SHIFTY LAD, THE WIDOW'S SON. 1 I. THERE was at some time or other before now a widow, and she had one son. She gave him good schooling, and she was wishful that he should choose a trade for himself; but he said he...
Fairy Tales. The Gloaming Bucht : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE GLOAMING BUCHT. 1 "SPEAKIN' o' fairies," quoth Robbie Oliver (an old shepherd, who lived at Southdean in Jedwater, and died about 1830), "I can tell ye about the vera last fairy that was seen hereaway. When my faither, Peter Oliver...
Nursery Stories. Rashin Coatie : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], RASHIN-COATIE. 2 ONCE, a long time ago, there--was a gentleman had two lassies. The oldest was ugly and ill-natured, but the youngest was a bonnie lassie and good; but the ugly one was the favourite with her father and mother. So they...
Fairy Tales. Sanntraigh : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], SANNTRAIGH. 1 THERE was a herd's wife in the island of Sanntraigh, and she had a kettle. A woman of peace would come every day to seek the kettle. She would not say a word when she came, but she would catch hold of the kettle. When she...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 06 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE DOOMED RIDER. 1 "Tim Conan is as bonny a river as we hae in a' the north country. There's mony a sweet sunny spot on its banks, an' mony a time an' aft hae I waded through its shallows, whan a boy, to set my little scauting-line...
Witchcraft. The Witches Of Delnabo : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 237 THE WITCHES OF DELNABO. 1 IN the time of my grandmother, the farm of Delnabo was proportionally divided between three tenants. At first equally comfortable in their circumstances, it was in the course of some time remarked by all...
Witchcraft. Laird Harry Gilles : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], LAIRD HARRY GILLES. 1 THE Laird Harry Gilles of Littledean was extremely fond of hunting. One day, as his dogs were chasing a hare, they suddenly stopped, and gave up the pursuit, which enraged him so much that he swore the animal they...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE MERMAID OF KNOCKDOLION. 1 THE old house of Knockdolion stood near the water of Girvan, with a black stone at the end of it. A mermaid used to come from the water at night, and taking her seat upon this stone, would sing for hours...
Witchcraft. Ronaldson Of Bowden : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], RONALDSON OF BOWDEN. 3 A MAN named Ronaldson, who lived at the village of Bowden, is reported to have had frequent encounters with the witches of that place. Among these we p. 232 find the following. One morning at sunrise, while he w...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 02 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], THE SEAL-CATCHER'S ADVENTURE. 1 THERE was once upon a time a man who lived upon the northern coasts, not far from "Taigh Jan Crot Callow" (John-o'-Groat's House), and he gained his livelihood by catching and killing fish, of all sizes...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 14 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], NUCKELAVEE. 2 NUCKELAVEE, was a monster of unmixed malignity, never willingly resting from doing evil to mankind. He was a spirit in flesh. His home was the sea; and whatever his means of transit were in that element, when he moved...
The Three Green Men Of Glen Nevis : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 34 Donald, Dougald and Duncan starting out to seek their fortune.--Page 35, "Scottish Fairy Tales". p. 35 THE THREE GREEN MEN OF GLEN NEVIS. PART I. "WELL, it is not the least use talking about it; there is not more than one loaf...
Fairy Tales. The Smith And The Fairies : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 134 THE SMITH AND THE FAIRIES. 1 YEARS ago there lived in Crossbrig a smith of the name of MacEachern. This man had an only child, a boy of about thirteen or fourteen years of age, cheerful, strong, and healthy. All of a sudden he...
Stories Of Animals. The Fox And The Cock : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 93 THE FOX AND THE COCK. A FOX one day met a cock, and they began talking. "How many tricks canst thou do?" said the fox. "Well," said the cock, "I could do three; how many canst thou do thyself?" "I could do three score and thirteen...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 10 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 177 THE BROWNIE, THE BOGLE, THE KELPY, MERMEN, DEMONS. THE SCOTTISH BROWNIE. 1 THE Scottish Brownie formed a class of beings distinct in habit and disposition from the freakish and mischievous elves. He was meagre, shaggy, and wild...
The Brownie, The Bogle, The Kelpy, Mermen. Part 04 : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 186 THE FISHERMAN AND THE MERMAN. 1 OF mermen and merwomen many strange stories are told in the Shetland Isles. Beneath the depths of the ocean, according to these stories, an atmosphere exists adapted to the respiratory organs...
Witchcraft. The Brazen Brogues : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 243 THE BRAZEN BROGUES. OR, TOO MANY TO MARRY. THERE was a strange party assembled at the young farmer Gille Macdonald's that late spring evening, the night of the tryst at Inveraray, from attending which all and sundry were making...
Fairy Tales. The Lothian Farmer's Wife : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], p. 138 THE LOTHIAN FARMER'S WIFE. 1 THE wife of a farmer in Lothian had been carried off by the fairies, and, during the year of probation, repeatedly appeared on Sunday, in the midst of her children, combing their hair. On one of these...
Literary Tales. Cousin Mattie : * "Scottish Fairy and Folk Tales", by George Douglas, [1901], COUSIN MATTIE. 1 AT the lone farm of Finagle, there lived for many years an industrious farmer and his family. Several of his children died, and only one daughter and one son remained to him. He had besides these a little orphan niece...
