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MacKenzie, Mary, c1836-c1910 (healer | Badfearn | Ross and Cromarty)

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Story entitled 'An Tarbhan' about a bull being healed, 3 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/82
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Story entitled 'An Tarbhan' [charm for surfeit] about a bull being healed. The story states that the informant's father had a stirk which was swollen and which was healed by Mary MacKenzie of Badfearn [Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] who circled the animal sunwise repeating a charm 'in the name of the Trinity'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 3 September 1909