MacLean, Ciorstan, c1855-1937
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Note about burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra and accompanying vocabulary, August 1903
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/20
Scope and Contents
Burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra, probably collected from Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, telling how a 'bonnach tollt' was put in the coffin and a coin is put under the coffin in the grave. 'The toll saved the bonnach from the corra-chagailt...Even the coin in the fasnadh had to be treated in a peculiar way to save it from the sithich' [fairies].' The vocabulary notes include 'Tàsg = the bird that foretells death tri sgramhann granda - less than a...
Dates:
August 1903