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FOLK LORE:
OR,
SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS IN THE WEST OF SCOTLAND WITHIN THIS CENTURY.
WITH
AN APPENDIX,
SHEWING THE PROBABLE RELATION OF THE MODERN FESTIVALS OF CHRISTMAS, MAY DAY, ST. JOHN'S DAY, AND HALLOWE'EN, TO ANCIENT SUN AND FIRE WORSHIP.
BY
JAMES NAPIER, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., &c.,
Author of Manufacturing Art in Ancient Times, Notes and Reminiscences of Partick, &c., &c.
1879
CONTENTS.
APPENDIX.
PREFACE
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
CHAPTER II.
BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD.
CHAPTER III.
MARRIAGE.
CHAPTER IV.
DEATH.
CHAPTER V.
WITCHCRAFT, SECOND-SIGHT, AND THE BLACK ART.
CHAPTER VI.
CHARMS AND COUNTER CHARMS.
CHAPTER VII.
DIVINING.
CHAPTER VIII.
SUPERSTITIONS RELATING TO ANIMALS.
CHAPTER IX.
SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING PLANTS.
CHAPTER X.
MISCELLANEOUS SUPERSTITIONS.
APPENDIX.
YULE, BELTANE, & HALLOWEEN FESTIVALS:
Survivals of Ancient Sun and Fire Worship.
YULE.
BELTANE.
MIDSUMMER.
HALLOWE'EN.
INDEX.
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