. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected. , and had been silvermounted. A minister told me that they were blessed by thepriests and worn by Roman Catholics only, but I think this wasa mistake. Protestants keep them, I know.—See Introduction,vol. i. There is no reason to believe that the stories now current inthe Highlands are nearly exhausted by this collection; wholedistricts are as yet untried, and whole classes of stories, suchas popular history and robber stories, have scarcely been touched;and yet new stories come in regularly. MacLean, Urquhart,Carmichael, Dewar, and othe
. Popular tales of the West Highlands : orally collected. , and had been silvermounted. A minister told me that they were blessed by thepriests and worn by Roman Catholics only, but I think this wasa mistake. Protestants keep them, I know.—See Introduction,vol. i. There is no reason to believe that the stories now current inthe Highlands are nearly exhausted by this collection; wholedistricts are as yet untried, and whole classes of stories, suchas popular history and robber stories, have scarcely been touched;and yet new stories come in regularly. MacLean, Urquhart,Carmichael, Dewar, and others, have many more written down,but not copied fairly out. 791 is the number now reached, andthe manuscripts would fill a wheelbarrow. Three more volumeswould hardly contain the collection; all taken down from themouths of the people within the last three years; and yet it iscommonly said that there are ^^no current popular half of the world seems to know very little about tbe other;but here ends the list of what came out of Faiey fipiT-li INDEX. Adders, ii. 369, 370. Advertisement by Dr. John Smith to MS. Gaelic Poems, ii. 472, Library, Gaelic MSS. in, i. sx., Ixxiv., cxvi., 155 ; ii. 80, 166,• IS/, 188, 193 ; iii. 402 ; iv. 41, 45, 92, 102, 118, 120, , i. 269 ; iv. implements, i. , story of, i. xlviii., 154; ii. 302. Albannaich, i. cxviii.; ii. , discovery of, by the North-men, in the tenth century, iv. 344- , Hans, i. xlviii.; ii. collection of Gaelic Poems (Glasgow), iv. Museum, Edinburgh, iv. , asserted, of Ossians poems, iv. , the dog-star, i. , the, of Egypt, ii. and the Pytho, ii. , red book of, ii. , magical, their important part in traditional tales, i. , xc, 192, 352;iv. , his Milesian tales, iv. 314, 327, Nights, i. xix., xlviii., Ixxx
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