MacLellan, Penelope, 1796-1873

Person

Staff Only

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'Mac Mhuirich Mor', 27 May 1869

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/46

Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Mac Mhuirich Mor' probably collected from Penelope MacLellan, Ormacleit/Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The text bears a number of annotations and amendments in pencil and has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere. The story tells how MacMhuirich Mòr found a small cat-like creature and took it home. His wife urged him to return the creature to where he had found it but he refused. The creature's mother came looking for her young and threatened to cause...

Dates: 27 May 1869

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Verse beginining 'Altrom ucair uacan [piuthair]', 27 May 1869

Item

Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/47

Scope and Contents

Verse possibly a curse collected from Penelope MacLellan, Ormacleit/Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Altrom ucair uacan [piuthair], Fear a mhiodacha mo chrocain'.