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1857 Legends of Cromarty : The Mermaid : Halloween Rites : Spectres : Scotland
1857 Legends of Cromarty : The Mermaid : Halloween Rites : Spectres : Scotland
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Scenes and Legends on the North of Scotland
Or, The Traditional History of Cromarty
By Hugh Miller
Published by Thomas Constable and Co, Edinburgh, 1857. Third Edition. Half leather binding, 8vo, pp xiv, 482. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
CONDITION
A very good copy. The leather binding is very good with no cracking to the hinges. Marble endpapers very good and inner joints sound with no cracking. All contents present and pages godd and clean throughout. Name to front endpaper and piece of paper with printed name to the same endpaper. Overall a very good copy.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
My Old Library and its Contents - The Three Classes of Traditions -Legend of Sludach - Singular Test of Character - The Writer's Pledge
CHAPTER II.
Alypos - Etymological Legends - Epic Poetry of the Middle Ages - Astorimon - The Spectre Ships - Olaus Rudbeck
CHAPTER III.
The Bay of Cromarty - The Old Coast Line - The Old Town-The Storms of the Five Winters - Donald Miller's Wars with the Sea
CHAPTER IV.
Macbeth - Our Earlier Data - The Fions of Knock-Ferril - The King's Sons - The Obelisksof Easter Ross - Dunskaith - The Urquharts of Cromarty -Wallace -The Foray of the Clans - Paterhemon
CHAPTER V.
Remains of the Old Mythology - The Devotional Sentiment - Interesting Usages - Rites of the Scottish Halloween - The Charm of the Egg - The Twelfth Rig-Macculloch's Courtship - The Extinct Spectres - Legend of Morial's Den - The Guardian Cock
CHAPTER VI.
A Scottish Town of the 17th Century - The Old Castle of the Urguhart - Hereditary Sheriffship,
CHAPTER VII.
Sir Thomas Urquhart,
CHAPTER VIII.
The Reformation - Outbreaking at Rosemarkio - Sir John Urquhart of Craigintrio - The Ousted Ministers - Mr Fraser of BreaLuggie
CHAPTER IX.
The Chaplain's Lair
CHAPTER X.
The Curates-Donald Roy of Nigg - The Breaking of the Burgh - George Earl of Cromartie - The Union
CHAPTER XI.
Important Events which affect the Religious Character - Kenneth Ore - Thomas Hogg and the Man horse - The Watchman of Cullicuden - The Lady of Ardvrock - The Lady of Balconie
CHAPTER XII.
The Fisherman's Widow
CHAPTER XIII.
The Story of John Feddes - Andrew Lindsay
CHAPTER XIV.
The Chapel of St Regulus - Macleod the Smuggler - The Story of Sandy Wood,
CHAPTER XV.
The Poor Lost Lad - A Ballad in Prose-Morrison the Painter
CHAPTER XVI.
The Economy of Accident - The Black Years - Progress of the Pestilence - The Quarantine The Cholera
CHAPTER XVII.
Martinmas Market - The Herring Drove - The Whale Fishers - The Flight of the Drove - Urquhart of Greenhill - Poem - William Forsyth - The Caithness-Man's Leap
CHAPTER XVIII.
Sandy Wright and the Puir Orphan
CHAPTER XIX.
Tarbat Ness - Stine Bheag o' Tarbat,
CHAPTER XX.
The Mermaid - The Story of John Reid - Macculloch the Corn Agent - The Washing of the Mermaid,
CHAPTER XXI.
The Bad Year - Sandison's Spulzie-The Meal Mob
CHAPTER XXII.
The Forty-Five - Nannie Miller's Onslaught - The Retreat - The Battle of Culloden - Old John Dunbar - Jacobite Psalm
CHAPTER XXIII.
The Dropping-Cave - The Legend of Willie Millar - A Boy Adventurer - Fiddler's Well
CHAPTER XXIV.
Wars of the Town's-people - Macculloch the Lawyer - The Law-Plea - Roderick and the Captain -Mr Henderson
CHAPTER XXV.
The Churchyard Ghost - My Writing Room - The Broken Promise - -The Polander - The One-Eyed Stepmother - The Pedlar - The Green Lady - Munro the Post
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Literati of Cromarty - Johnnie o' the Shore - Meggie o' the Shore - David Henderson - Macculloch of Dun-Loth
CHAPTER XXVII.
The Gudewife of Minitarf
CHAPTER XXVIII.
The Old School, and what it produced - Dr Hossack - The Hard Dominic - Mr Russel the Minister - The Cock-Fight - Macculloch the Mechanician
CHAPTER XXIX.
The Itinerant Sculptor - Kirk Michael - The Apprentice's Dream - The Wild Wife - Gordon of Newhall - Sir Robert Munro-Babble Hanah
CHAPTER XXX.
George Ross, the Scotch Agent
CHAPTER XXXI.
The Burn of Eathie - Donald Calder - The Story of Tam M'Kechan - Fause Jamie
CHAPTER XXXII.
Our Town Politics - The First Whig The Revolution - The Demo-cracy - The Procession - Hossack's Pledge - The Country Meeting - The French War - Whiggism of the People
(Location, Scotland, Top Shelf)
