Excerpt from County Folklore, Vol. 7
A good score of years ago, when beginning to take an active interest in Folk-Lore matters, I wrote a letter to one considered an authority in the North, asking information. The following answer was received in the handwriting of the author here quoted: "In two volumes by the Rev. Dr. Stewart of Ballachulish - Nether Lochaber, published by William Paterson, Edinburgh, now Paterson & Co., Paternoster Row, London - Dr. Maclagan will find all that could be collected of any interest in the superstitions and folk-lore of the West Highlands." In those twenty years a considerable quantity of information has found its way into print, gathered from West Highland and other Scottish sources, and though "Fife and all the lands about it" are not in the Highlands we are still increasing for convenience of reference our stores of knowledge, and the information contained in this volume bulks as largely as both those mentioned as published by Paterson & Co.
That the" Kingdom of Fife" should have a collection made of its own folk-lore must seem imperative to the exclusive Fifer, and also in less degree perhaps to the other inhabitants of Scotland. We call the Fifer "exclusive," while he insists on the descendants for some generations of persons settling in Fife from other parts of Scotland being styled distinctively as "Incomers."
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