Folklore of Scottish Lochs and Springs

Fairs--Their Connection with Holy Days--Nature-festivals--Modes of Marking Time--Ecclesiastical Year and Natural Year--Christmas --Fire-festivals--Hallow E'en and Mid-summer Fir...

Votive Offerings--Gifts usually of Small Value--Toubir-nim-buadh --Rumbling Well--Heath--Rags--St. Wallach's Bath--Pins at St. Wallach's Well--Luckiness of Things Crooked--Pins...

Archaic Nature-worship--Deification of Water Metaphors--Divination by Water--Persistence of Paganism--Shony--Superstitions of Sailors and Fishermen--Sea Serpent--Mer-folk--Sea C...

Stone-worship--Mysterious Properties of Stones--Symbolism of Gems --Gnostics--Abraxas Gems--Gems in Sarcophagi--Life-stones--Use of Amulets in Scotland--Yellow Stone in Mull--Ba...

Healing and Holy--Modern Health-resorts--King's Ease--Poorhouse of Ayr--Muswell--St. Martin's Chapel--Alum Wells--Petrifying Springs--Peterhead--Moss of Melshach--Well of Spa--C...

Columba's Miracle--His Wells--Deer--Drostan's Springs--His Relics--His Fairs--His Connection with Caithness--Urquhart--Adamnan--His Wells--Tom Eunan--Feil Columcille--Adamnan's...

Water-horses and Water-bulls--Highland Superstition--Spiritual Water-demon and Material Water-monster--Water-bulls of Loch Llundavrà and Loch Achtriachtan--Water-horses of Loch...

In all ages much attention has been given to the weather, with special reference to its bearings on human well-being. As Mr. R. Inwards truly observes, in his "Weather-lore," "F...

Modern and Ancient Pilgrimages--Benefits from Pilgrimages-- Cuthbert's Shrine at Durham--Cross of Crail--Pilgrims' Well and St. Martha's Hospital at Aberdour--Ninian's Shrine at...

Ronan--Dow Well--Influence on Topography--Ronan's Springs--Pol Ronan and Feill Ronan--Fergus--His Well in Banffshire--Glamis--His Relics--His Wells at Montrose and Wick--Helen--...

Influence of Scenery--Science and Superstition--Loch-nan-Spoiradan --Lochan-nan-Deaan--Lochan-Wan and its Sacrifice--Jenny Greenteeth --Poetry and Superstition--Tweed and Till--...

Change from Paganism to Christianity--Columba--Spirits of Fountains--Hurtful Wells--Stone Circles--Superstitions regarding them--Standing Stones and Springs--Innis Maree--Maelru...

Stone Beds and Chairs--Cave Life--Dwarfie Stone--Stone Boats--Balthere--His Corpse--His Well and Cradle--Marnan--His Influence on Topography--His Head--St. Marnan's Chair and We...

Recovery from Illness--Hydromancy--Mirror--Juno's Pool--Prediction and Cure--Methods of Augury--Portents of Death--Water like Blood--Springs and National Annals--Heritable Juris...

still practised in the North of Scotland a formal sacrifice--not an oblique but a literal and downright sacrifice--to a nameless but secretly acknowledged power, whose propitiat...

Mystery of a Spring--Marvel and Magic--Misinterpretation of Natural Phenomena--Healing Power of Springs--Peterhead--Poetry and Superstition--MacCulloch--Mistake about a Tree--St...

Wells Wonderful as to Origin--Tre Fontane--Springs where Saints were Beheaded--St. Alban's Spring--Covenanter's Spring--St. Vynning's Spring--Scottish and English Hagiology--Spr...

Trees were at one time worshipped as well as fountains. Ygdrasil, the world-tree of Scandinavian mythology, had three roots, and underneath each, was a fountain of wonderful vir...

Fulfilment of Wishes by Divination--Love Charms--Hallow E'en Rites, &c.--Wishing Tree--Wishing Holes--St. Govan's Chapel and Well--Walsingham Wells--Wishing Stone in St. John's...

Trying different Springs--Curing all Diseases--Fivepennies Well --Water and Dulse--Special Diseases--Toothache--Sore Eyes-- Blindness--Headaches and Nervous Disorders--Deafness-...