MacPhail, Malcolm, Rev, 1837-1906 (minister | Kilmartin | Argyllshire)
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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents
Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates:
1874, 1877 and 1891
Story entitled 'Airidh Mhuthair' about water-horses murdering young women, 1874 and 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/149
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Airidh Mhuthair' [Àirigh 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
Story entitled 'Airidh Neill' about a water-horse at Airidh Neill and Neill's dogs, 1874 and 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/151
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Airidh Neill' about a water-horse which arrives at Airidh Neill nam Beann [Àirigh Nèill] nam Beann disguised as a woman. The dog senses it is a water-horse and begins to snarl. The water-horse asks Niall to tie up his dogs but Niall refuses. He throws the water-horse some meat, which it eats in one go. Eventually the dog is let out and is unharmed but when the bitch is let out it kills the water-horse and the water-horse turns into a big white mare on the shore. Niall tied...
Dates:
1874 and 1891
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a water-horse and the female cattle-herder, 1874 and 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/150
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a girl who is herding cattle by a loch when a handsome young man appears, greets her and goes to sleep on her coat. She notices that there is seaweed and sediment from the loch in his hair and realises he is a water-horse. She cuts her coat away from the piece under his head and escapes. When the water-horse awakes he shakes the piece of coat under his head saying, 'Ma's duine tha n so 's eutrom e!' ['If anyone's here they're very light!']. He went...
Dates:
1874 and 1891
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a water-horse in Carishader, Lewis, 6 May 1874 and 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/147
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' collected from Iain Macleod, Bhaltos [Valtos, Eilean Leòdhais /Isle of Lewis]. The story concerns a family from Carasiatar [Cairisiadar/Carishader] who were bothered by a young water-horse, every time the husband was away from home. A wise man in the village told the husband to put on his wife's clothes and when the water-horse came to the house and asked who was in, the husband was to reply ' 'S mi-fein 's mi fein' ['Myself and myself']. This all happened...
Dates:
6 May 1874 and 1891
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a water-horse in Crageo, Lewis, 1874 and 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/148
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a water-horse in Crageo [Crà-geò [Loch Cràgach], Eilean Leòdhais /Isle of Lewis] who regularly visits three houses when the husband is away. Once the husband, a cattleman, put on his wife's clothes and started spinning thread. The water-horse came to the door, saw him and went away never to return confused that the woman of the house should be spinning but also have a beard, 'An cuigeal siud/ud a th'aigesan, Us feusag air a ghuibean aige.'
Dates:
1874 and 1891
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