Bride, Saint, c453-525 (Kildare)
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. Of the ninety-three folios in the notebook, only twenty-two have been used.
Dates:
14 November 1873 to 10 April 1875
[Prayer] entitled 'Sloinnidh Brìde', 21 December 1885
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/54
Scope and Contents
[Prayer] entitled 'Sloinnidh Brìde' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'Sloinnidh ban-naomh Bride muime Chriosda, Bride nighean Dughaill duinn'. Text has been scored through in pencil.
Dates:
21 December 1885
Story entitled 'La-fheil bride' about Mrs Major MacLeod, c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/48
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'La-fheil bride' [Latha Fheille Bhrìde or St Bridget's Day] telling how on hearing that it was St Bridget's Day, Mrs Major MacLeod, the daughter of Flora MacDonald, 'started up got a stocking put something in it probably a piece of peat and proceded to pound it down with a mallet' repeating a rhyme beginning 'La-fheil-Bride thig niean Imhir as an toll'. This was a custom believed to stop snakes from stinging the person who did this for the whole year. St Bridget's Day was when...
Dates:
c1875
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