Fladdachuain
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John Gregorson Campbell
Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland
James Maclehose And Sons, Glasgow
1902
Scotland
Fladdachuain: restless drowned dead, midnight haunting, mistaken ghostly assault.
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Fladdachuain
On the uninhabited and lonely islet of _Fladdachuain_, to the east of Skye, some storm-stayed fishermen were boiling potatoes in a deserted bothy, and heard the noise of voices outside. On going out they could find no one. This occurred thrice. Some days after, and before the fishermen got away, a boat passing to the outer Hebrides was forced by stress of weather to take refuge in the same islet. The voices of its crew were exactly those previously heard. Nothing further occurred in connection with the sounds.
The spirit, thus coming in a visible or audible form about a treasure, by which the thoughts are too much occupied, or where a person wishes too much to be, is also denominated “_falbh air fàrsaing_,” _i.e._ going uncontrolled.
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