{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/nes/index.htm","path":"neu/celt/nes/index.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/nes/index.htm","text":"This is an ethnographic study of the inhabitants of the North-Eastern\narea of Scotland in the mid-19th century, at a time when an agrarian, barter\neconomy still prevailed.\nLife was hard among these remote coastal communities, and they\nlived in fear of maleficent witches and the 'Evil Eye'.\nMany of the rituals, taboos and folkways in this book are to ward\noff witchcraft directed against economic mainstays such as\nlivestock and fishing.\nThe book has many fascinating bits of lore, as well as extensive oral poetry,\nall in Scots dialect.\n(There is, thankfully, an extensive glossary at the end, in case\nye're na sure fhat all the clatterin's aboot.).\nThere are also detailed descriptions of holidays, weddings, and other\ncelebrations, which reveal that life was not completely grim.","title":"Folk-lore of the North-East of Scotland Index","type":"page"}