Haunted Castles & Houses Of Scotland

by Coventry, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781899874477
• ISBN10: 189987447X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-11-15
• Publisher: Goblinshead

Summary

A comprehensive and spine-chilling collection of more than 200 detailed ghost stories associated with Scotland's many castles and great houses, including Edinburgh, Stirling, Fyvie, Crathes, Dunnottar, Neidpath, and hundreds more. Most of the sites c

Table of Contents

Preface	v
How to Use the Book	viii
Maps	ix
List of Castles and Mansions (with opening & contact details)	xiv
Introduction	3	(3)
Section One Ladies of Different Colours	6	(104)
Lust, Cruelty, Jealousy	8	(37)
Foul and Bloody Murder	8	(25)
Property	33	(5)
Witchcraft and Magic	38	(7)
Love & Death	45	(27)
The Breaking of a Heart	45	(14)
Death by Misadventure	59	(5)
Death by Suicide	64	(8)
Some Other Ghostly Ladies	72	(38)
Mary, Queen of Scots	72	(6)
Some Green Ladies	78	(9)
Some White Ladies	87	(6)
Some Grey Ladies	93	(3)
Careless Nursemaids and Housekeepers	96	(2)
Old Ladies	98	(3)
Ladies of Different and No Colour	101	(9)
Section Two Portents, Gruagach & Brownies	110	(25)
Harbingers & Heralds of Death	110	(14)
Spirits	111	(7)
Animals	118	(2)
Bells, a Birlinn and a Severed Head	120	(4)
Gruagach & Brownies	124	(11)
Gruagach	124	(5)
Brownies	129	(6)
Section Three Ghostly Men	135	(60)
Black & Bloody Lairds	135	(25)
Evil Lairds	137	(9)
Enemies of God	146	(8)
Reformation Devils	154	(4)
Tortured Souls and Evil Bogles	158	(2)
Men Too Wronged to Rest	160	(11)
Some Other Male Bogles	171	(24)
Famous Ghosts	171	(6)
Other Named Ghosts	177	(7)
Pipers	184	(4)
Unknown Ghosts	188	(7)
Section Four Other Eerie Tales	195	(22)
Massacres	195	(5)
Blood Stains	200	(1)
Children	201	(3)
Dogs, Hounds, Monkeys and a Lion	204	(3)
Insubstantial Phantoms	207	(10)
Selected Further Reading	217	(2)
Index by Haunting	219	(5)
Main Index	224