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THE PEAT-FIRE FLAME
men in the other. No sooner were swords and dirks
flashing, according to a Perthshire tradition, than coffin and
corpse became two coffins and two corpses. So, the
contestants immediately sheathed their w^eapons; and the
men of Strathfillan set off by one track with one corpse, and
the men of KilHn b}- the other track with the other corpse.
The only feasible explanation for this extraordinary
occurrence was that put forward by a recent minister of
Strathfillan, namely, that the funeral party had had so much
drink that its members were seeing double.
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Peat-fire flame
DescriptionFolk-tales and traditions of the Highlands & Islands by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor.
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DescriptionSelected books from the Ossian Collection of 327 volumes, originally assembled by J. Norman Methven of Perth. Different editions and translations of James MacPherson's epic poem 'Ossian', some with a map of the 'Kingdom of Connor'. Also secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy.
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