205:(1488‒1513) John Allanson, a dissolute young man, tries to entice Mary Burnet into an assignation. She appears, but throws herself into a loch and apparently perishes. John informs her father, but they find Mary safe in bed, though distressed. She then vanishes while haymaking. Two years later, John is invited by Mary to join her in a wonderful castle. He disappears, and his body is found in a ravine occupying the site of the apparent castle. After another five years, following the advice of a dwarf, Mary's parents meet her and her two sons briefly at Moffat and she assures them that she is happy.
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Henderson is put in touch with a Mr MacTavish and presents the resulting epistolary communication as a continuous, highly elaborate, narrative. Forced by the
Catholic authorities to give up her baby, Julia asks MacTavish to keep track of the child's movements. The baby is brought up in a cottage by Elspeth Cowan, but carried off by a foxhunter lodging with them. Elspeth, possessed of supernatural insight, proclaims that MacTavish is destined to rediscover the young man, which after several adventures he does and the youth's legitimacy is established.
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Reformation, Colin Hyslop of Traquair is saved from local diabolical powers by a vial of liquid, supplemented by a medal, bestowed by two supernatural ladies. The Master Fiend arranges for him to be tried as a warlock by a Catholic court, when his beloved Barbara prompts him to
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An old doctor who has developed a plant-based elixir causing people to follow him tells of his winning a trial of skill with a rival professor before the king and queen of Spain, and of his narrowly escaping with his life from a herd of cattle enraged by the potion while he was attempting to court a
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Wat Scott, called 'Window Wat' from his bashfulness as a wooer, and his more assertive companion Jock Jewel are at cross-purposes in courting two sisters. Wat helps Jock to elope to
Edinburgh with the younger sister, whom he himself fancies, accompanied by her older sibling, but events result in the
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should be brought together in book form. In June the following year
Blackwood suggested that Hogg's nephew Robert might correct (basically, formalise) and alter (basically, censor) the contents, but in the autumn he put off publication blaming the stagnation of the market. To Hogg's frustration, it
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Clinkum, a blacksmith, learns that the ghost of the recently deceased laird of
Wineholm has been seen, and that his son-in-law Dr Davington is thought to have murdered him. The matter is investigated legally and a joiner testifies that the laird is alive, having revived in his coffin. Dr Davington
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The daughter of old Isaac, a minister, tries to dissuade him from attending the deathbed of a young profligate who has corrupted her son and her daughter
Euphemia, but he persists in his intention and secures the sinner's repentance. On a second visit he finds the sinner convalescent, and ready to
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Nancy's beloved
Archibald tells her that her father is facing bankruptcy. When her father discovers that she knows this he is enraged and beats her. She leaves for Aberdeen, where she lives embittered until her repentant father discovers her after three years. She rejects him, but when Archibald
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Henderson, the principal narrator, tells how he observed Julia, sister of the Earl his master, together with a reputed witch Eppie Cowan, burying sets of clothes belonging to Julia's baby son. He related the story to the Earl and was discharged for his own safety. Seeking more information
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Lady
Wheelhope is suspected of the murder of a succession of servants, but she meets her match when a weird odd-job-man arrives. She becomes possessed with hatred of him, and when he is dismissed after she has killed her son and heir in mistake for him she pursues him and he torments and finally
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Two brothers agree to fight a duel over their love for Ellen Scott (Thomas regarding her as a potential mistress, Francis as a potential wife). They are dissuaded by a manifestation of their absent father, the laird of
Cassway, apparently raised by Ellen's maternal aunt who has the reputation of
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A critical edition edited by Douglas Mack appeared in 1995 as the first volume in The Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of The Collected Works of James Hogg, published by Edinburgh University Press. This omits five items deemed not intended by Hogg to be included: 'Nancy Chisholm', 'The
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The Selkirk cobblers are subject to a double trick: first in being induced individually to make boots for a visiting gentleman, then in having the money paid abstracted by another gentleman, while being addressed in both cases as 'souter', a title abhorrent to
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George, an Edinburgh hackney-coach proprietor, dreams of driving a gentleman and son to hell and of engaging to return the next day. When he wakes up, he is obsessed with the need to keep his engagement and dies imagining he is making the return
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Tibby is ill-treated by her master, but her testimony in court results in him being ruined and taking his life. Both Tibby and her great-aunt have powers which enable them to foresee the events of the story.
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In the present year, 1823, Andrew, an old shepherd, tells his master of the history of the Ettrick Forest, and of the death in the snow of Rob Dodds, a young shepherd, resulting from harsh treatment by his
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Most of the sketch is devoted to William Laidlaw of Phawhope (Will o' Phaup, Hogg's grandfather), a conspicuous drinker and fighter, and the last man in Ettrick to converse with fairies.
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acknowledge that he has been helped by the Blessed Virgin (though he has been brought up by a Reformed father). He goes on to become wealthy under Catholic patronage, marrying Barbara.
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In July 1753 Adamson, a man liable to extreme fits of temper, mistreats a poor neighbour and an old beggar Patie Maxwell, before being killed by lightning in a ferocious summer storm.
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in February 1824 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. Class IV. Dogs', and here combined with Hogg's earlier article in March 1818 'Further Anecdotes of the Shepherd's Dog')
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in May 1827 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar—By the Ettrick Shepherd. Dreams and Apparition. Containing George Dobson's Expedition to Hell, and the Souters of Selkirk.')
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Prodigal Son', 'The School of Misfortune', 'The Marvellous Doctor', and 'A Strange Secret'. The items included are based on the texts originally published in
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in September and November 1821 as 'Pictures of Country Life. No. I. Old Isaac' and 'Pictures of Country Life. No. II. Continued from p. 219')
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in June 1828 as 'A Strange Secret. Related in a Letter from the Ettrick Shepherd'; the rest here published for the first time)
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in June 1827 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. Dreams and Apparitions.—Part II. Containing Tibby Hyslop's Dream, and the Sequel')
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arrives she mellows and they are married. The couple prosper, enabling Nancy to repair her ruined father's fortunes.
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in February 1828 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. Class IX. Fairies, Brownies, and Witches. By the Ettrick Shepherd')
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in July 1827 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. Dreams and Apparitions, containing Smithy Cracks, &c. Part III')
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in December 1821 as 'Pictures of Country Life. No. III. Continued from p. 452. The School of Misfortune')
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in April 1828 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. Class IX. Fairies, Deils, and Witches. By the Ettrick Shepherd')
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in August 1827 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. By the Ettrick Shepherd. Dreams and Apparitions.—Part IV')
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Examples illustrating the proper response to misfortunes—greater circumspection, and perseverance.
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was another three years before the two-volume set, wholly edited by Robert, saw the light of day.
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in March 1823 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. Class Second. Deaths, Judgments, and Providences')
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in June 1823 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. Class Second. Deaths, Judgments, and Providences')
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kills her before disappearing. He is remembered locally as The Brownie of the Black Haggs.
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was published by William Blackwood, Edinburgh, and T Cadell, London in 1829.
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V. 'George Dobson's Expedition to Hell' (first published, with No. VI, in
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Papers Given at the Second James Hogg Society Conference (Edinburgh 1985)
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in April and May 1819 as 'The Shepherd's Calendar. Storms'; reprinted in
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that the 'Shepherd's Calendar' articles which had been appearing in
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George Dobson's Expedition to Hell and The Souters of Selkirk
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since 1819. They are set in, or deal with aspects of, the
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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222:XI. 'The Laird of Wineholm' (first published in
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316:VIII 'Nancy Chisholm' (first publication here)
301:in April 1827 as 'General Anecdotes. Prayers')
132:The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany
119:The Edinburgh Magazine, and Literary Miscellany
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46:On 1 September 1825 Hogg proposed to
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634:The Pilgrims of the Sun
583:A Series of Lay Sermons
567:The Shepherd's Calendar
508:The Three Perils of Man
492:The Brownie of Bodsbeck
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374:Tibby Hyslop's Dream
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