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Catalogue of Brand Material.

III. General Observanxes.

(a) Propitiatory and Precautionary First-footing

Almsgiving - - - -

Pouring ale into the sea Sprinkling boats and houses Bathing in lochs -

Rites with Five.

Hair of cattle singed with burning rag

Cattle lustrated with fire, ammonia, water and salt, together with prayers and charms - - -

Rowan-tree branches burnt before house, to keep away witches : (Highlander in) -

Torches carried round fields to purge out evil spirits and to ensure fertility

Burning peat carried round homestead. - -

Sweeping round peat-stack, to preserve peats ^ -

House-fire kept alight -

Unlucky to give fire out of the house, 1780

[h) Bonfire Customs.

Bonfires forbidden by

Presbytery 1648 - Bonfires customary

One for every house

LOCALITY.

Rites. Caithness (Wick). Outer Hebrides. Lewis (see § iv.). Orkney.

Caithness, Galloway

(see 5 iv.).

Orkney, 1633.

Highlands and Hebrides.

Fife.

Perthshire (Braemar).

Outer Hebrides.

Sutherland. Borders.

each village

,, and isolated farm, to bum the witches Numerous, i860 -

1 See Divination below.

(Locality ?).

Fife.

Highlands, Hebrides,

Moray, Buchan, North- east, Perthsh., Ren- frewsh., and West.

Highlands and Hebrides, Perth (Balquhidder), 1S88.

Perth (Callander), 1770- 80.

North-east.

Head of Loch Tay.