Cameron, Roderick, c1836-1919 (Ruairidh | fisherman | Carbost | Isle of Skye)
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Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', 1860 to 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/2
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] on 14 November 1860. The story tells of how a farmer went out hunting and on growing weary lay down to sleep. On waking up he found the heather growing all around him and his dogs dead. When he arrived home, his son who was a baby when he left had grown up and all his servants...
Dates:
1860 to 1861
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents
Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates:
1860 to c1866
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- Giants 6
- Household employees 6
- Magic 6
- Marriage 6
- Monsters 6
- Hunting 5
- Kings and rulers 5
- Household goods 4
- Revenge 4
- Theft 4
- Fernilea Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 3
- Family 2
- Food 2
- Love 2
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Songs 2
- Talisker Isle of Skye Bracadale Inverness-shire Scotland 2
- Arthurian romances 1
- Beheading 1
- Benbecula Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Bernisdale Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Biography 1
- Birds 1
- Cille Pheadair North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clachan na Luib North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Clans (Scotland) 1
- Customs 1
- Death 1
- Deception 1
- Diarmaid 1
- Disputes 1
- Family History 1
- Fenian cycle 1
- Fenians 1
- Fionn MacCumhail 1
- Griminish North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Haskeir Island North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Heisker North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hogha Gearraidh North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Hospitality 1
- Identification 1
- Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Isle of Lewis Ross and Cromarty Scotland 1
- Language 1
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- Riddles 1
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- Scolpaig North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Sea faring 1
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- Sheep 1
- South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Stilligarry South Uist Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Trien Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland 1
- Vocabulary 1
- Voyages and Travel 1
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