- The
Ghaist's Warning is a
Scottish ballad based on
Robert Jamieson's
translation of the
Danish ballad Svend Dyring (DgF 89; TSB A 68). It was published...
- slaw,
intil ma ain wake, at the
Sheep Heid Inn. Fowk
heuch an flee: “A
ghaist, a bogle,
risin fae the deid!” I
sclim oot, caum. The braw
Brewster gies...
-
thowt ‖ than he owt
think what he can ‖ on his way to gan what tiv his
ghaist ‖ o good or ill
maist after his
deeth day ‖ doom then may say. The account...
- not than
vithout greit caus, and ane
special instinctione of the
halie Ghaist, that thir
toungis foirspokin hes bene, as thay vil be
retenit to the end...
- two
minor burns, the
Pisga and the Greentop,
exiting to run down to the
Ghaist Glen Burn via a
single burn. The 1854-9 6 inch OS map
refers to the site...
-
Heriot features as one of the two
ghosts in
Robert Fergusson's poem The
Ghaists: A Kirk-Yard
Ecologue (1773). He
appears as a
character in the
novel The...
- lad, And you may wind me in your
plaid shawl, And I
shall be your dear.
Ghaist nor
bogle shalt thou fear, Thou'rt to Love and Heav'n sae dear,
Nocht of...
- legends.
Scott also
published some of Jamieson's translations, such as The
Ghaist's Warning in the
notes to The Lady of the Lake. Jamieson's work preserved...
- Lest
ghaist or
aught wad
skirl an' yell, An'
cause a steer. Deed Sir, I've
often heard it tell, By folk much
aulder than mysel',
There ghaists an' spunkies...
- a tale ; and The
Brownie O'Fearnden, a
ballad Burness, John, The
Comical Stories of
Thrummy Cap and The
Ghaist,
Margaret and the Minister, Soda Water...
