Contents

Preface -- Good luck is better than gold -- The hillman and the housewife -- The neck -- The Nix in mischief -- The cobbler and the ghosts -- The Laird and the Man of Peace -- The ogre courting -- The magicians' gifts -- The widows and the strangers -- Kind William and the water sprite -- Murdoch's Rath -- The little darner -- The fiddler in the fairy ring -- "I won't" -- The magic jar -- The first wife's wedding-ring -- The magician turned mischief-maker -- Knave and fool -- Under the sun.