Nicolson, Magnus, c1845-1909 ([Manus MacNeacail] | postman | Fernilea, Isle of Skye and Glasgow)
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1856-1880
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael made up of three excise notebooks marked 'Journal', 'Account Current' and 'Bills Receivable'/'Bills Payable' and a single folio. The first book is marked on the front with 'Carbost June 13 1861 Alexander Carmichael' [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye].The second book is inscribed with the same text on the front cover and the inside front covers reads 'Alasdair A Mac 'Illemhicheil Cillendraisd, Liosmor' [Cill Anndrais/Killandrist, Lios...
Dates:
1856-1880
Story entitled 'An t Each Uisge', 28 February 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/24
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'An t Each Uisge' ['The Water-Horse'] collected from Manus Mac Neacail [Magnus Nicolson], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story tells how a woman in Uisgegeir or Aoidhsgeir [possibly Theisgeir/Heisker] had a prophesy in which a calf born in Uibhist/Uist would save the island from a water-horse. Two MacKenzies would be sitting on a hill and would see two crows, one of which would drop a bone, which would hit one of them on the head and they would...
Dates:
28 February 1861
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- Bernisdale Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Cattle 1
- Deception 1
- Family 1
- Food 1
- Giants 1
- Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Identification 1
- Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Love 1
- Magic 1
- Marriage 1
- Monsters 1
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Prophecy 1
- Shapeshifting 1
- Sheep 1
- Songs 1
- Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
- Water-horses 1 + ∧ less
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