ection>James Hogg
James Hogg: Collected Novels, Scottish Mystery Tales & Fantasy Stories
The Three Perils of Man, The Brownie of Bodsbeck, The Shepherd's Calendar and Other Tales
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-7583-604-5
Table of Contents
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Three Perils of Man - War, Women and Witchcraft: A Border Romance
George Dobson's Expedition to Hell
The Brownie of the Black Haggs
Novels
The Private Memoirs
and
Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Sinner
The Editor’s Narrative
It appears from tradition, as well as some parish registers still extant, that the lands of Dalcastle (or Dalchastel, as it is often spelled) were possessed by a family of the name of Colwan, about one hundred and fifty years ago, and for at least a century previous to that period. That family was supposed to have been a branch of the ancient family of Colquhoun, and it is certain that from it spring the Cowans that spread towards the Border. I find that, in the year 1687, George Colwan succeeded his uncle of the same name, in the lands of Dalchastel and Balgrennan; and, this being all I can gather of the family from history, to tradition I must appeal for the remainder of the motley adventures of that house. But, of the matter furnished by the latter of these powerful monitors, I have no reason to complain:
