CHAPTER XIV.--WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC.

Rudha Chailleach--Witchcraft and magic still believed in--Jessie the cripple, a witch--Depriving milk of its fruit--Kenlochewe case in presbytery records--Kenneth Mackenzie, the maighstair sgoil, punishes the witch at Strath--His cows recover--Recent cases--The sian--Description of it--Duncan M'Rae--His song--Entrusted with a keg of gold for Prince Charlie--Hides the keg in the Fedan Mor--Renders it invisible by the sian--The wife of the Cibear Mor sees the keg--The cave at Meallan a Ghamhna--The cave and weapons concealed by the sian--Seen by several women recently--Another similar case on Loch Maree--Alastair Mor an t' Sealgair--Runs the blockade by means of the sian--His variations of the sian--Other examples of Alastair's and his father's powers--The wind made favourable by magic 163