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Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)

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Story about why a village in Tiree never hears a cock crow, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/39
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Story about a village in Tiree [Tiriodh, Earra-GhĂ idheal/Argyllshire] which never hears a cock crow because Calum Cille [St Columba] thought he would pass through the place before the cock crowed but the cock crowed as he was passing through so he made a curse that a cock would never crow there again. According to the story a cock has never crowed there since. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1901

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