Hint of irony, “I am a psychical researcher who has actually seen a ghost, for I have been among the more primitive people of England and have not ed down their songs” (quoted in Gammon 1980:83). Similarly, when Samuel Johnson and James Boswell toured the Western Islands of Scotland in 1773,in search of what remained of “pastoral life” and “ primitive customs,” they concluded that the people they had encountered “were as black and wild in their appearance as any American savages” (quoted in Burke 1996:8). However, when they visied the Hebrides, their host in one village where they stayed was bitterly offended by their host in one village where they stayed was bitterly offended by their expectation of primitivism: “his pride seemed to be much piqued that we were surprised at his having books” (quoted in Burke 1992:303).