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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.

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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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