Free eBook Throughout Dumfriesshire and Galloway remnants of old-world customs still linger, suggesting a remoter time, when superstitious practice and belief held all-important sway in the daily round and task of the people.

In gathering together the available material bearing upon such matters, more particularly in the direction of witchcraft, fairy-lore, death warnings, funeral ceremony and ghost story, the author trusts that by recording the results of his gleanings much as they have been received, and without at all attempting to subject them to higher analysis or criticism, a truer aspect and reflection of the influence of superstition upon the social life of those older days, may be all the more adequately presented.

112 George Street, Edinburgh,
August 9th, 1911.

Chapter I.
Traditional Witchcraft Described

Chapter II.
Witch Narrative

Chapter III.
Witchcraft Trials and Persecution

Chapter IV.
Fairies and Brownies

Chapter V.
Wraiths and Warnings

Chapter VI.
Death Customs and Funeral Ceremony

Chapter VII.
Ghost Lore and Haunted Houses