by R MacDonald Robertson, WS, FSA (Scot)

A belief in the supernatural prevails almost universally among the tribes of mankind.  Man has always chafed at the limitations of his knowledge, and has tended to see in any unusual experience the manifestation of mysterious...

From Recollections and Reflections of an Octogenarian Highlander by Duncan Campbell. 1910. (From Glen Lyon)

THE PEOPLE WHO travelled about in these far off days were all news carriers, who helped to keep widely-apart Highland districts in living touch with one another...