Abstract
This article examines the influence of Scottish folklore and fairy-belief in the writings of Emily Brontë. The two selected motifs of the supernatural, the ghost and the brownie, which cover a central role in James Hogg's The Shepherd's Calendar, underlie the plot and characterization of episodes from the Gondal saga and Wuthering Heights. The seamless continuity between the seen and the unseen, signified by ghostly apparitions, and the brownie's moral ambivalence featured in Hogg's tales throw new light on the psychological treatment of the supernatural in Brontë's works.
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