Columba, Saint, c 521-?597 (monastic founder | Calum Cille)
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Story about Calum Cille's holiness being proved by his mother's illness, 1901
Story about Calum Cille's [St Columba] holiness being proved by his mother's illness. A servant had said to Calum Cille's mother that Calum Cille was not as holy as he pretended. His mother went to bed ill and he told her she would be better and she was thus proving his holiness. Text has been scored out as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story about Calum Cille's sister, 1901
Story about Calum Cille's [St Columba's] sister, who was going to the sheiling with another woman. Calum Cille told her to put a stone in her sack and when the woman asked her what she had in her sack to tell her that it was cheese. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story about churches built by Calum Cille [St Columba], 1901
Story about fishing on Ìle/Islay and Calum Cille [St Columba], June 1887
Story about fishing on Ìle/Islay collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Baile Meadhanach/Ballymeanach, there that fishing would take place at Oin Hailigeo [Abhainn Shailigeo/Saligo River] or Loch Gruinart and that once a man caught a losgain [frog or toad] and gave it to Calum Cille [St Columba], who made a curse that every salmon would face out to sea and none would return. The story concludes that the lake used to be full of salmon.
Story about praying to Cuirralain for healing, 29 August 1883
Story about stone crosses on Ìle/Islay, June 1887
Story about the saints connected to Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
Story about why a village in Tiree never hears a cock crow, 1901
Story about a village in Tiree [Tiriodh, Earra-Ghàidheal/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.
Story of how St Columba cursed the flounder to have a crooked mouth, 1901
Story of how Calum Cille [St Columba] cursed the flounder to have a crooked mouth. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Two versions of the charm beginning 'I will pull thee pregnant torranan' or 'I will pull thee torranan', February 1874
Two versions of the charm beginning 'I will pull thee pregnant torranan' or 'I will pull thee torranan' [Eòlas an Torranain or Charm of the Figwort]. Both versions have some words amended while the first five lines of the first version has been scored through in pencil as if deleted rather than transcribed elsewhere.
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