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Charm entitled 'A Chloimh Chat', c1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/22
Scope and Contents

Charm entitled 'A Chloimh Chat' [The Catkin Wool] collected from John Paton or Beaton or Bethune, shepherd, Àird-nan-Laogh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist beginning 'Buainidh mise Chloimh-chat, An lion a bhuain Bride o (romh?) 'glaic'. Additions have been made to it in ink and a tick indicates it has been transcribed elsewhere. A note also reads 'See p[age] 78'.

Dates: c1870

Charm entitled 'An Eitheann Mu Chrann', c1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/26
Scope and Contents

Charm entitled 'An Eitheann Mu Chrann' [The Tree-Entwining Ivy] beginning 'Buainidh mis an Eitheann mu chrann, Mar a bhuain Moire le h-aon laimh'. The charm is noted as being called 'Leum mu-chrann' in Harris [Na Hearadh] and also as having been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: c1870

Charm entitled 'Eolas A Chronachaidh', 8 May 1869

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/39
Scope and Contents

Charm entitled 'Eolas A Chronachaidh' [Spell of the Counteracting] collected from Isiebeal Siosal [Isabel Chisholm], tinker of no fixed abode, beginning 'Buainidh mis a chathair aigh/chearr, Mar a bhuain Criosda le ' laimh.'

Dates: 8 May 1869

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Chisholm, Isabel, fl1869 (traveller | temporarily in North Uist) 1
Paton, John, 1787-1877 1