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Golspie: Contributions to Its Folklore )'^v^^''^^-^Sv^5»*!|*^ • i^J-fs^'. , • )«E*. ,.iiliiiiiiwiiilili iU4-l GOLSPIE ••^ Golspie ?<• Contributions to its Folklore by Amiie and Bella dcmming, Jane Stuart, Willie W. Mtinro, Andrew Gimn, Henri J. MacLean, and Minnie Sutherland {when pupils of Golspie School) Collected and edited, with a chapter on ' The Place and its Peopling,' by Edward W. B. Nicholson, M.A., Bodley s Librarian in the University of Oxford With illustrations, chiefly from photographs by A. M. Dixon London David Niitt, 270-271 Strand 1897 HORACE HART, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY 145" ^ TO THE RE\^ JAxMES MAXWELL JOASS, D.D., IN MEMORY OF CONSTANT HELP AND KINDNESS RECEIVED 5 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION page Our first coming to Golspie ..... i How this book came to be written .... 2 Annotation, and chief works used for it . 4 The Folk-Lore Society, and a suggestion to it . 6 A new class of subjects for prize-essays in schools . 7 Want of research-training in English schools and universities ........ 8 Results hoped for from this book .... 8 Its pretensions limited ...... 9 Its special obligation to Dr. Joass .... 9 STORIES Oral tradition and its decay 14 Keltic stories : The Horse-fairy 1 The Water-wraith of Loch Lindie . i? How the Water- wraith story was worked up . 19 Similar tales of Lochan a' Ghille and Glenogle . 21 Satanic story 25 How that was worked up, and its original form . 30 Its topographical statements ..... 32 Stories of hauntings ....... 33 „ „ ghosts that were no ghosts— with a caution against ghost-shamming ... 34 ' viii Contents STORIES (continued) page Historical and geographical traditions : The origin of the wild-cat crest of the Earls of Sutherland 41 The names Cat,Cataibh, Catu'^, and Clann Cattach applied to Sutherland and Clan Sutherland 43 The correct form of Scott's ' Mac Galium More 48 The obelisk on Golspie bridge .... 49 A cave at Backies $0 SUPERSTITIONS 'Superstition' exists in all parts of Great Britain and among all classes 53 What ' superstition 'is 53 The theory of omens 54 Superstitions about Fishing : Dread of the hare 55 Consulting a witch 56 The praying over the boats $6 Boats not to be counted 56 Unluckiness of ' the minister,' &c. • • • 57 Sunday and the sun in fishing-superstitions . 59 Not taking a dead body into the boat ... 60 Superstitions about Animals : Black snails as money-bringers . .61 Cockcrowing at night a bad sign . .61 Cuckoo's note before a door a death-omen . 62 Unlucky to hear cuckoo first time if you are fasting 62 Peacock's feather unlucky 62 First sight of beasts 63 Horse-shoes as amulets 65 Superstitions about particular Times : Cutting nails on Sunday 66 Monday unlucky 67 New moon 67 Hallowe'en's night 68 — Contents IX Superstitions about the Evil Eye : PAGE The Evil Eye .... 68 Feared in churning 69 Counteracted by a red thread 69 And by a live coal . 70 ,, ,, water,&c.,inwhichasilvercoinhasbeenput 70 Superstitions about Birth, Marriage, and Death, &c Child's first airing at Christening . 72 Child-curing with gold-and-silver water 72 Marriage-contract by whom written 73 Brass candlesticks to be used at marriage and death ........ 74 Losing the wedding-ring omen of husband's death 74 Woman's first airing after childbirth to be at churching ....... 75 Superstitions about Witches, &c. : Witches as hares .... 76 Which are to be shot only with silver 77 Cow-witching, and charms against it 80 Image-killing. .... 82 Various charms against witchcraft 84 Sham wizardry .... 84 Miscellaneous superstitions : Teeth falling out—lucky if not found 85 Breaking a looking-glass unlucky 85 Crossing on stairs unlucky 86 Picking up a pin lucky . 86 Money in water lucky 87 Fairies milking cows 87 CUSTOMS ATTACHING TO DAYS Disappearance of old customs . 91 Hallowe'en : Outdoor amusements Turnip-lanterns ..... • 91 Blocking up and bombardment of doors 91 Contents Outdoor amusements (continued) . : ' '' ' ' ' Contents ' My name is Queen Alary 132 [I'll] take her by the lily white hand 133 Roses in and roses out ' . 133 I've a lad at Golspie ' 134 I can wash a sailor's shirt' 134 ' I can chew tobacco 134 May be I'll get married' 135 Johnie Johnson took a notion ' 148 Here comes gentle(s) roving ' 150 Mother, the nine o'clock bells are ringin 155 Green grass set a pass ' . 156 E. I.O.' 156 Hop, Hop, the butcher's shop ' 156 Green peas, mutton pies 157 ' I love Bella, she loves me 157 Here 's a poor widow from Babylon ' 158 9- When I was a lady ' . 164 ' Here 's three sweeps, three by three 169 lo. Take your daughter safe and sound 170 II. Games in a ring 174 1 ' Water, water, wallflowers 174 2. 'Hilliballu' .... 176 Derivation of 'hullabaloo' &c. 182 3. ' Hull many an auld man' 1S5 4. * Four in the middle of the soldier's joy' 187 III. ' Mrs. Brown' .... 1S7 Mrs. Brown went to town 188 Where have you been all the time 189 Oh ! what a cold you have got' 1S9 ? Oh ! dear, doctor, shall I die 190 There was a man ' . 190 TUNES OF THE GAME-RIMES How the tunes were taken . 195 'Scottish ' music .... 195 ''.' ' '''' ' Xll Contents PAGB ? • Father and mother, may I go ' My delight 's in tansies . 198 ' My name is Queen Mary' 198 ' Green gravel ' . [I'll] take her by the Hly white hand,' &c ' ' Oh yesterday in the morning gay ' I can wash a sailor's shirt,' &c. 202 ' ' Johnie Johnson took a notion 203 ' ' Here comes gentle(s) roving . 203 ' Mother, the nine o'clock bells are ringing 203 ' E. I. O.', &c 203 ' ' Here's a poor widow from Babylon 204 * When I was a lady ' . 204 ' Here's three sweeps,' &c. 205 ' Water, water, wallflowers 205 'Hihiballu' 206 ' Four in the middle of the soldier's joy 207 ' Mrs. Brown ' 207 SONGS ABOUT GOLSPIE 211 NUMBER-RIMES .... 215 ' One, two, three, four "... 215 ' Scinty tinty, my black hen 216 ' Scinty tinty heathery beathery 218 ' The Anglo-Cymric score 218 RIMING INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS 'If I by chance should lose this book' . .225 ' Black is the raven ' 225 MISCELLANEOUS RIMES ' Eel-e, eel-e-ot ' 229 ' Golspie is a bonny place 230 ' I, when I think of what I are 231 ' Napoleon was a general' 232 ' Rain, rain, rattlestone(s) 233 Johnnie Groat's house— not John o' Groat's house 234 Contents XIU PROVERBS XIV Contents Rhives .... 287 Derivation of the name . 287 The present village of Golspie 287 Site of the original village 287 The population of the parish 288 village „ » „ ,) 288 Their occupations 288 Their races 289 Clan Sutherland 290 ,, Mackay . 290 „ Murray . 290 „ MacDonald . 291 „ Ross 291 „ Gordon . 291 „ MacKenzie 291 „ Grant 291 „ Gunn 292 „ Matheson 292 ,, MacRae 292 Apparent geographical origin of the present popula tion .... 292 Evidence of clan-names as to nationality only pre- sumptive 293 Clan Munro 293 ,, Fraser 293 Their languages : 293 Proportion of speakers of Gaelic 294 Long life to Highland Gaelic ! 294 The dialect of English spoken 294 Their education .... 296 APPENDIX ' ' The Anglo-Cymric score 301 Additional counting-out rimes 306 Glossary to the contributions 312 ' ' Contents XV Rimes in Chambers known to A. C. or B. C. 315 Halliwell „ „ „ „ „ ,, „ 316 A dictionary of the Kilmaly Ogam-stone . 319 List of the Pictish inscriptions 319 The competition and the contributors 328 Additional notes to the contributions : ' Derivation of ' kilpie,' ' kelpie 332 Dread of the hare . 332 Monday unlucky 333 Witches as hares . 334 How to discover a cow-witch . 539 Stand but(t) .... 339 * See the robbers passing by 340 * Rosy apple, lemon, and pear 343 ' Mother, the nine o'clock bells are ringing 344 Poor Tom 345 Notes on the illustrations . 349 Descent of the Sutherland title 350 ILLUSTRATIONS * 1. Mountains, meadow, and bay . toface Title 2. *Golspie Burn .... 3. Map of the district 4. *The waterfall .... 5. Outside view of a broch 6. Section of the elevation of a broch 7. Ground-plan of a broch . 8, 9. *The Kilmaly Ogam-stone (2) . 10. The Pictish Ogam alphabet . 11. The Ogams on the Kilmaly stone 12, 13. Dunrobin in 1805 (2) 14. *Dunrobin in 1S96 . 15. *An old burn-mouth * From photographs by Mr. A. M. Dixon INTRODUCTION We had left the pleasant uplands of Glen Shee for the sands, the waves, the bracing breezes of Nairn—and to our dismay Nairn was full already. We had then turned our eyes to the varied coast- line opposite, stretching away for league upon league toward the Orkneys, and had resolved to try Tain. We had found Tain peaceful and pic- turesque—but alas ! its shores were not for the feet of the paddler or the spade of the digger, and so we had sped northward still, to Golspie. And at Golspie we had found all that we craved. On the north of the bay, where we first sought it, there was just sand enough—we had not yet seen the miles of smooth sand which lie south of the village. Before us, across the steely sea rose far and dim the line of Moray hills ; while in front of us the seabirds swam, wheeled, and settled. Behind, brown kye and snowy geese were dotted over a broad belt of green pasture. To left stood the woody heights and gleaming turrets of Dunrobin. To right swept a low shore backed by a crescent B ! 2 Hoiv this book came to be zvritten of mountains. And Golspie Burn ! with its beautiful fall, babbling rapids, and clear pools of brown water ! its rocks and trees and ferns and mosses and its dusky rabbits scudding away wlierever we bent our steps ! Yes, certainly we should have found content at Golspie—even if the Sutherland Arms had been less homelike ; even if our host, the Duke's whilom gardener, had not joined to it one of the most delightful of simple old-fashioned gar- if noontide a robin (or was he an dens ; even every enchanted prince?) had not come in at the window and by his example gracefully invited us to partake of the newly spread luncheon.
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