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Customs relating to to food and drink, 20 November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/15

Scope and Contents Custom relating to food and drink including predicting using egg-whites or salt in water - the choice of salt water was an indication of drowning; the number of grains of corn thrown from a handful would indicate the number of children a woman would have; an account using 'crathadh an fhras lin' at Draineach, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isleof Skye; salt-herrings being roasted on a fire and the first thristy person would be the first to be married; and the throwing of a string into a kiln to see...

Dates: 20 November 1873

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89

Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...

Dates: 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

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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

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/72

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List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel] probably collected on Ìle/Islay noting that the sand-eel is 'as large ling - 9 in[ches] in gob of this one - blue - not eaten - not in sand'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

List of names of fish and shellfish, August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/22

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List of names of fish and shellfish probably collected on the Barraigh/Isle of Barra including 'Deanadh maorach - App[lies] to the limpet only - Musgan or Coilleag-Struban = Cailleach (Kintire)' [Cinn Tìre/Kintyre]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: August 1903

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about a crooked headed fish, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/82

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Note probably collected on Ìle/Islay about a crooked headed fish similar to a gurnet. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about a 'long fish like serpent', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/89

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Note about a 'long fish like serpent' collected on Ìle/Islay which reads 'Long fish like serpent 10 f[ee]t on W[est] Bank among the siolag leaping. puts down head in lifting tail.'

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about a turbot or sturgeon, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/87

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Note about a turbot or sturgeon '3 or 4 f[ee]t long 2 1/2 broad no name' caught at Port na h-Abhainne/PortnahavenÌle/Islay.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about carbhanach or bream, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/154

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Note about carbhanach or bream that it is 'got on rivers in parts of England'.

Dates: 1894

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel, 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/153

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Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel which reads 'Bones of head hard scales sharp and prickly. Scales come off whole when boiled. When plentiful no herrings are got on the west coast'. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1894

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Customs relating to to food and drink, 20 November 1873

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

List of fish names and note about the fish 'siolag-ghobach' [sand-eel], June 1887

List of names of fish and shellfish, August 1903

Note about a crooked headed fish, June 1887

Note about a 'long fish like serpent', June 1887

Note about a turbot or sturgeon, June 1887

Note about carbhanach or bream, 1894

Note about 'Cra-rionnach' or red mackerel, 1894

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