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.* 



In like manner an island in Loch Maree, Ross-shire, 

 was for the same reason selected for a similar purpose.t 



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.J 



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 

 maybe 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. Harvic Browii 

 saw fresh graves there in May, 1879. 



f Macculloch's ' Western Isles," quoted in Chambers' " Gazetteer 

 of Scotland," p. 755. 



Constable's Edinburgh Magazine, Nov. 1817, p. 340. 



" Statistical Account of Scotland" (1972), vol. ii. p. 465. 



|| Chambers' " Caledonia," vol. ii. p. 132. 



