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Account of a fishing trip around Mingulay with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories, 23 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/31

Scope and Contents Account by Alexander Carmichael of a fishing trip around Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories. Carmichael notes geographical features such as high points, caves, rocks or arches; archaeological sites such as dùns or graveyards; places people have used for looking after livestock or catching birds and fish, noting breeding grounds or habits of some birds; and sea-faring items such as the conditions of the sea or navigation techniques. One...

Dates: 23 May 1869

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Birdcall and note about the bird 'Bhothag-mhara' [ringed plover], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/184

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Birdcall which reads 'Mo dhùip mo dhùip mo dhuip!' and note about the bird 'Bhothag-mhara' [ringed plover] including its birdcall as 'Is bigidh e sid Is bigid[h] e sid'. text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm beginning 'Eolas chu[ir] Moir[e] gheal' [Ob Ri Shul or Spell of the Eye] and accompanying note, 12 September 1890

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/11

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Charm [Ob Ri Shul or Spell of the Eye] beginning 'Eolas chu[ir] Moir[e] gheal, Gu B[ride] Nall air muir'. The note explains some of the vocabulary such as 'clobha' and 'sobha' and some of the meaning of the charm. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 12 September 1890

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm called 'Casga fala' and accompanying note, September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/126

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Charm called 'Casga fala' beginning Rug[adh] Ios[a] am Beth[lehem] and accompanying note stating that in some places it was used by the ban-ghluin [bean-ghlùin - midwife] and also that the Perthshire form of midwife is 'b[e]an-phlaid[e]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'An t-Eolas Foirbhein' and vocabulary note, 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/14

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Charm entitled 'An t-Eolas Foirbhein' collected from Catherine MacIntosh, pauper, Staoligearry, South Uist [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas] on 20 May 1875, beginning 'Oba chuir Moire gheal gu Brìde' acting as a spell against the evil eye. There is a note on vocabulary within the charm and a list of related charms, which is written in with a different ink. The text has been scored through in pencil.

Dates: 1883

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'Bun Dearg' with vocabulary and accompanying note about medicinal plants, c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/48

Scope and Contents Charm entitled 'Bun Dearg' [Charm of the Red Water] beginning 'An t-eolas a rinn Calum-cille, Us leth chas sa churrachan'. The accompanying note gives vocabulary for plants which have medicinal properties, citing their uses for example 'The splitting of the human hair at the point is called gadmunn. The plant called the gadmunn prevents this hence the name.' Mention is also made of the availability of the plants in Iochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The plants are used for ailments in both...

Dates: c1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'Casga Fala' and vocabulary note, 17 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/134

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Charm entitled 'Casga Fala' collected from John Beaton, cripple, Badan Mhugaidh beginning 'Tha e leos leis na cead tu roinn le An Athar'. The vocabulary note reads 'Leos = Lews = Losgadh na abhair'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 17 September 1909

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Charm entitled 'Eolas An t-Snaimh (Sprain)', c1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/25

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Charm entitled 'Eolas An t-Snaimh (Sprain)' [Charm for Sprain] beginning 'Chaidh Criosda mach air maduin mhoich, Fhuair e cas nan each nas spruileach mu seach'. Carmichael notes two other terms for 'sprain', namely 'sgiuchadh' and 'siachadh' and that the charm is repeated 'three times over the broken limb'. The charm is noted as having been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: c1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Collection of Gaelic and English Words written by the Rev Alexander Cameron, late 19th century

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW378

Scope and Contents Collection of papers written by the Reverend Alexander Cameron, includes fragments of 'Clann Tuireann', 'Clan Calitin', and 'Tain Bo Cuailnge'. Also Laoidh Chlann Uisne, a transcription of a recording made 15 March 1867 from Donald MacPhee, smith, Breubhaig, Barra by Alexander Carmichael. There is a note at the end to 'the late John F. Campbell', implying that it was made when he was editing the Laoidh for the Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness xv...

Dates: late 19th century

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Custom entitled 'Goisteachd' and 'Blood Brotherhood', 9 January 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/70

Scope and Contents Custom written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Goisteachd' and additionally entitled 'Blood Brotherhood' by Alexander Carmichael. MacRury recalls how if two boys drew blood while playing then one would put blood on the back of the hand of the other and say 'roinn [rinn] mi goisteachd riut' and that would mean that they 'were friends in all plays henceforth', although frequently the bond was short-lived MacRury remarks 'there was something in it as the...

Dates: 9 January 1895

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Account of a fishing trip around Mingulay with accompanying place-name notes, descriptions and stories, 23 May 1869

Birdcall and note about the bird 'Bhothag-mhara' [ringed plover], June 1887

Charm beginning 'Eolas chu[ir] Moir[e] gheal' [Ob Ri Shul or Spell of the Eye] and accompanying note, 12 September 1890

Charm called 'Casga fala' and accompanying note, September 1909

Charm entitled 'An t-Eolas Foirbhein' and vocabulary note, 1883

Charm entitled 'Bun Dearg' with vocabulary and accompanying note about medicinal plants, c1870

Charm entitled 'Casga Fala' and vocabulary note, 17 September 1909

Charm entitled 'Eolas An t-Snaimh (Sprain)', c1870

Collection of Gaelic and English Words written by the Rev Alexander Cameron, late 19th century

Custom entitled 'Goisteachd' and 'Blood Brotherhood', 9 January 1895

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