CHAPTER XIII.--SUPERSTITIONS GENERALLY.

Highlanders' surroundings suggest superstition--Gradual diminution of it--Older superstitions--Loch Maree water cure--The Fox Point--Coins found--The Cathair mor and Sitheanan Dubha--Gairloch fairy tale--The Shiant Isles' fairy--Eilean Suainne--Fairies seen on Isle Ewe in 1883--Lights and music of fairies noticed at Mellon Charles--William M'Lean gets a bagpipe chanter from the fairies--The Gille Dubh of Loch a Druing--Superstitious fancies--The Loch of the Beast--Evidence of the appearance of the beast--Proceedings for its suppression--Rorie and the mermaid 158