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MacPhail, Malcolm, Rev, 1837-1906 (minister | Kilmartin | Argyllshire)

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Story entitled 'Airidh Mhuthair' about water-horses murdering young women, 1874 and 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/149
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Airidh Mhuthair' [Ă€irigh Mhuthair] in which three girls are staying on Airidh Mhuthair when three water-horses dressed as three handsome men join them. In the dead of night, two of the water-horses kill two of the girls. The third girl runs away and is pursued by the third water-horse who curses her in verse, the curse beginning, 'Cha b'e an airi shubhach, Ach an airi dhudbhach dheurach'. Carmichael notes, writing in landscape, that the girl got away because she was fleet of...
Dates: 1874 and 1891

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