Highland Legends

Legends and traditions of the Scottish Highlands: the wolf of Badenoch, the ghosts of the Findhorn, the second sight, and the great Moray floods of 1829, which the author had witnessed. Thomas Dick Lauder was a Morayshire laird and a naturalist as well as a storyteller. The tales are told as a proprietor's local knowledge rather than as folklore. Sixty plates of painting, from Jacopo di Cione to John William Waterhouse, gather the shrines, saints and crowned Virgins that haunt these tales of Highland faith and flood.