Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland Quotes

“This castle builder had various claims to attention yet, though it was read and wondered at, it did not excite sufficient admiration to gratify the ambition of the author. The 'cold reasoning age' which had not been sufficiently dazzled by his performance, would, he hoped, be succeeded by one more fanciful and enthusiastic. He became the leader of a pompous, if not powerful band of magicians, whose wands conjured up forms more elegant and aerial than their prototype had summoned! Bells rang, owls shrieked and chains rattled in all directions; our circulating libraries swarmed with homebred apparitions.”
― Anne MacVicar Grant, Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland