THE WOLF. 183 
There is a tradition on Loch Awe side, Argyllshire, 
that Green Island was used as a burial-place for the 
same reason.” 
Tn like manner an island in Loch Maree, Ross-shire, 
was for the same reason selected for a similar purpose. 
On the western shores of Argyllshire the small isle 
of St. Mungo, still used as a burial-place, has been 
appropriated to this purpose from the days when the 
Wolves were the terror of the land, the passage 
between it and the mainland opposing a barrier which 
they in vain attempted to cross.t 
In Athole it was formerly the custom to bury the 
dead in coffins made of five flagstones to preserve the 
bodies from Wolves.§ 
When treating of the Wolf in England it was 
observed that many names of places compounded of 
“ Wolf” indicate in all probability localities where this 
animal was at one time common. The same may be 
said of Scotland. Chalmers cites in Roxburghshire, 
““Wolf-cleugh” in Roberton parish on Borthwick 
Water ; ““Wolf-cleugh” on Rule Water;” and “ Wolf- 
hope” on Catlee-burn, in Southdean parish ;|| to which 
may be added ‘“Wolflee” or ‘‘ Woole,” on Wauchope- 
burn; and “ Wolfkeilder” on the Northumbrian 
border. There are also ‘“ Wolf-gill land,” in the 
* This island is still used as a burying-ground. Mr. Harvie Brown 
saw fresh graves there in May, 1879. 
+ Macculloch’s ‘“‘ Western Isles,’’ quoted in Chambers’ ‘“ Gazetteer 
of Scotland,” p. 755. 
t{ Constable’s Edinburgh Magazine, Nov. 1817, p. 340. 
§ “ Statistical Account of Scotland” (1972), vol. 11. p. 465. 
|| Chambers’ “ Caledonia,” vol. ii, p. 132. 
