remarkable persons, half-wits, or others who rose to eminence or notoriety through some peculiarity.
iv. Witchcraft and ghosts—(1) Practice of witchcraft, and stories illustrative of the power of witches. (2) The “Black Art”, and legends connected with persons supposed to be in league with the devil. How one was admitted to the “Black School”? What powers it conferred, and on what conditions? (3) Ghost stories, haunted places, persons who “walked” after burial, the “laying” of ghosts, and why such could not rest.
v. Any other tradition or usage calculated to throw light on the life and habits of the people, their life, their food, and all kindred subjects.
If correspondents, who may favour me with communi- cations, state the facts, it does not matter though they are not dressed up in literary form. I prefer to have them in the simple language of the people. They can more easily be used in that form than in any other. No correspondent’s name will be used without his consent being specially obtained.
Reay Free Manse, Shebster, Caithness,
October, 1890.
