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for permission to include the chapter on Folk-tales and
Traditions of the '15 and the '45, to the Editors of the
Manchester Guardian, S.M.T. Magazine, and Passing Show
in respect of most of the material contained in the chapters
on the Seal-folk, the Brownie, and the Glaistig; and to my
good friend, Walter MacPhail, Editor of the Edinburgh
Evening Nezvs, for odds and ends that have been contributed
by me to his paper at varying intervals during the past
decade, and that now are appropriately incorporated in this
volume.
To Miss Mary Wilson, Black Hill House, Strathtay, I
am grateful for two or three Perthshire tales of the
Second-Sight and of Ghosts; to Miss M. Wright Craig,
Inverness, for several notes on Bell-lore and the like; to
my own kinsfolk in the Outer Hebrides for some of the
most precious fragments this book contains ; and to my late
father for the incomparable background of my childhood.
And I would be ungrateful, indeed, were I not to make
mention of the hospitality of my leal, open-handed friend,
A. B. MacKay, since it was over his generous fireside in
Cathcart, Glasgow, during the small hours, that much of the
material embodied in the succeeding pages was set down,
and gradually fashioned into book- form.
Alasdair Alpin MacGregor.
14, Paulton's Square,
Chelsea, S.W., 3.
June, 1937.