VIII. The Celts

PARTLY similar to the tale of Diarmuid at Dubhros, partly to that of Cod in the Forest of Wonders, is the old High land poem by Blind O'Cloan entitled Bds Fhraoich or ' The Death of Fraoch.' 1 It tells how Mai loved Fraoch but, becoming jealous of her own daughter Geal-cheann or 'Fair-head,' plotted his destruction.'The Rev. T. M'Lauchlan ib.p. 54 n. 3 says: 'It is generally believed in Perthshire that the scene of Fraoch's death was in Glen Cuaich, a valley lying between those of the Tay and the Almond.We have a Loch Fraoch there ... I cannot find any lake in Scotland now called Loch Mai, although Loch Fraoch may have been so called

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