Alexander Carmichael was by no means the only Gaelic speaker collecting and publishing charms at the end of the nineteenth century. In the ...

John Ewen MacRury (1853–1909) A remarkable method – which may be termed witchcraft – was said to have been a favoured way in which to cla...

A very common migratory legend concerning witchcraft throughout the Highlands and Islands, and doubtless elsewhere, was the supernatural phe...