Death Customs and Funeral Ceremony 216
CHAPTER VII.
Ghost Lore and Haunted Houses 244
APPENDIX.
(a) Surprising Story of the Devil of Glenluce 302
(b) A True Relation of an Apparition which Infested the house of Andrew Mackie, Ringcroft of Stocking, Parish of Rerwick, etc. 321
(c) The Laird o' Coul's Ghost 344
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page.
The Witches' Ride 4
"And Perish'd Mony a Bonny Boat" 12
The Carlin's Cairn 35
A Witch-Brew and Incantation 38
"A Running Stream they dare na cross" 69
A Witch Trial 85
The Burning of the Nine Women on the Sands of Dumfries, April 13th, 1659 114
Penance 125
"In Fairy Glade" 152
"Riddling in the Reek" 167
An Eerie Companion 206
"Deid Lichts" 211
Funeral Hospitality 222
A Galloway Funeral of Other Days 238
The Headless Piper of Patiesthorn 266
The Ghost of Buckland Glen 271
"To Tryst with Lag" 280
Ringcroft of Stocking 324
TAIL-PIECES.
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