Highland Scottish Folklore and Beliefs

The contents of this book are brief and basic, but they range from the pre-Celtic period right up to the present day.  In this atomic age, we are dealing with survivals in Celtic folklore.  A survival may remain over both as "believe" and as "right; in either case it is the equivalent of the Latin "Superstitio."  At this stage it is still necessary to continue the actual field-world of recording Celtic folklore as it exists, but the time has now come to endeavour to reduce such "survivals," in a scholarly way, to some system from the point of view of a comparative study of man; and, in particular, a psychical anthropology of the Celts.