Folk lore
by James Napier
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Chapters (38)
- 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.
- 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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