Scottish Ghosts

by Lily Seafield

Overview

Scotland is rich in folklore, with stories of white ladies, fairies, ghostly horrors and phantom sightings, as well as poltergeists. This collection of stories features places all over Scotland, as well as haunted houses, castles, abbeys, hotels, pubs and theatres, and even haunted pets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849340830
Publisher:	Waverley Books
Publication date:	02/11/2013
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	729 KB

Table of Contents

	Introduction	9
	Fairies, Green Ladies and Devilish Struggles	12
	Fairies	12
	Glaistigs	14
	Green Ladies	15
	Wailing Washerwomen	15
	The Banshee	15
	The Caoineag	16
	Devilish Struggles	17
	The Demon Crab	21
	Death and Dying: Ghostly Hordes and Phantom Lights	23
	Signs of Death	24
	Death Lights	24
	Ghosts of the Living	25
	Phantom Funerals	25
	Canine Sense	26
	Birds	27
	Death in Foreign Lands	27
	Phantom Hordes	28
	Polter Geists	29
	Andrew Mackie's House	29
	The Devil of Glenluce	36
	The Poltergeist of Sauchie	37
	A Haunted Capital	39
	Ann Street--The Return of Mr Swan	40
	Charlotte Square--A Ghostly Piano	41
	Corstorphine--The Haunted Sycamore Tree	41
	Dalry--The One-Armed Ghost of John Chiesly	42
	Edinburgh Castle--Phantom Musicians	43
	The Phantom Piper	44
	The Ghostly Drummer	45
	George Street--The Persistent Dressmaker	45
	Holyrood Palace--Memories of Murder	46
	Mary King's Close--Victims of the Plague	46
	Number 17--The Room of Terror	48
	Victoria Terrace--The Sad Spectre of Angus Roy	49
	The West Bow--The Devilish Ghost of Major Weir	50
	Ghostly Castles	53
	Abergeldie Castle	53
	Balgonie Castle	53
	Ballindalloch Castle	54
	Barcaldine Castle	55
	Bedlay Castle	56
	Braemar Castle	56
	Brodie Castle	57
	Buckholme Tower	58
	The Castle of Mey	60
	Cawdor Castle	61
	Claypotts Castle	61
	Comlongon Castle	62
	Cortachy Castle	63
	Craigievar Castle	63
	Crathes Castle	64
	Delgatie Castle	64
	Drumlanrig Castle	64
	Dunstaffnage Castle	65
	Duntrune Castle	65
	Duntulm Castle	67
	Dunvegan Castle	68
	Ethie Castle	69
	Fyvie Castle	70
	Gight Castle	70
	Glamis Castle	71
	Hermitage Castle	75
	Linlithgow Palace	76
	Littledean Tower	77
	Meggernie Castle	81
	Muchalls Castle	81
	Newton Castle	82
	Sanquhar Castle	83
	Spedlins Tower	84
	Tioram Castle	85
	Other Haunted Castles	86
	Religious Haunts	88
	Dalarossie	88
	Durness	90
	Lairg	91
	Melrose Abbey	91
	Iona	92
	Perth	93
	Rosslyn Chapel	94
	St Andrews Cathedral	95
	Sanquhar Kirkyard	97
	Ghosts in the House	100
	Abbotsford House, Melrose	100
	Allanbank House, Berwickshire	101
	Ballachulish House, Argyll	102
	Ballechin House, Perthshire	103
	Blythswood Square, Glasgow	103
	Boleskin House, Inverness-shire	106
	Broomhill House, Lanarkshire	106
	Bruntsfield, Edinburgh	107
	Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh	108
	Crail, Fife	111
	Crawford Priory, Fife	112
	Cullen House, Banffshire	112
	Dalkeith, Midlothian	113
	Frendraught House, Aberdeenshire	113
	Galdenoch Tower, Galloway	114
	Inverawe House, Argyll	116
	Learmonth Gardens, Edinburgh	118
	Leith Hall, Aberdeenshire	119
	Morningside, Edinburgh	120
	New Lanark, Lanarkshire	121
	Queensberry House, Edinburgh	123
	Other Haunted Houses	124
	Hotels and Public Houses: Extra Guests	126
	Port Ellen, Islay	126
	The Cross Keys Hotel, Peebles	127
	The Clydesdale Hotel, Lanark	128
	The Covenanter Hotel, Falkland	129
	The Kylesku Inn, Sutherland	129
	The Learmonth Hotel, Edinburgh	130
	The Moncrieffe Arms, Bridge of Earn	131
	The Old Post Horn Inn, Crawford	131
	Pannanich Wells Hotel, Ballater	132
	Tibbie Shiel's Inn, Peebles	132
	The White Dove Hotel, Aberdeen	133
	Military Spectres	136
	Culloden, Inverness	136
	Glencoe, Argyll	137
	The Hill of the Battle, Highlands	138
	Killiecrankie, Perthshire	140
	Montrose Airfield	141
	Nechtanesmere, Angus	141
	Dramatic Appearances	143
	The Byre Theatre, St Andrews	143
	His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen	144
	The Theatre Royal, Edinburgh	144
	Edinburgh--Three More Ghostly Theatres	145
	The Playhouse	145
	The Royal Lyceum	145
	Edinburgh Festival Theatre	145
	The Theatre Royal, Glasgow	145
	Mind How You Go	147
	Annan	147
	Ben MacDuibh	149
	Discovery, Dundee	151
	Dunphail	151
	East Kilbride	152
	The Flannan Isles	153
	Loch Skene	156
	Mull	156
	Pitlochry	157
	Sandwood Bay	157
	Selkirk	158
	St Boswells	160
	The Tay Railway Bridge	161
	Tomintoul	162
	Signs, Prophecies and Curses	163
	Bonnie Dundee--Ominous Sights	164
	Sir Walter Scott	165
	Visions of the Dead in Galloway	165
	The Cursed Mill	167
	The Curse of the Ruthven Ferry	168
	Second Sight	170
	The Brahan Seer	170
	Second Sight--A Ghostly Gift	174
	The Curse of Alloa Tower	175
	Ghosts Assorted	177
	Two Dead Pedlars	177
	The Schoolmaster and the Pedlar	177
	The Sanquhar Pedlar	178
	Spinning Jenny	180
	The Modernisation of a Manifestation	180
	Motherly Love	181
	A Faithful Pet	183
	The Black Dog of Tiree	184
	The Weariness of a Ghost	185
	Index	186