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, Eoss-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 Eoberton 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. 



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

 of Scotland," p. 755. 



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



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



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



