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Charm entitled 'Gearradh an tocaidh', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/217

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Charm entitled 'Gearradh an tocaidh' in which 'toc', an inflammation of a cow or horses' eye is cut with a needle.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Custom about maidean bhuana [corn dolly], 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/12

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Custom probably collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, about maidean bhuana [corn dolly] which reads 'Saw two maidean bhuana in house of Don[ald] Maclean Tobermory. Try who can have it This again is given to horses in first sgriob turadh.' [Tobar Mhoire, Am Muile/Isle of Mull].

Dates: 7 August 1886

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Custom for making a mare retain a foal, 26 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/50

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Custom probably collected from Penelope MacLellan, Ormacleit/Ormaclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist which reads 'Going 3 times southwise of the cladh [graveyard] made a mare retain her foal, and this was done to all the mares in Uist [Uibhist]. Also notes that that Clann Mhuirich had a tearmad or sanctuary, which meant that when someone reached Clachan Staoligeary [Clachan Stadhlaigearraidh] they were safe.

Dates: 26 May 1869

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

Fragment of a story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge', March 1874

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/80

Scope and Contents Fragment of a story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' [The Water Horse] in which a waterhorse/man arrives at a fisherman's house where there is a fairywoman with a pot of porridge. He is allowed in to get warm and dry, having been in the sea, and on being asked what her name is the woman replies 'Mise s mi fhein' [Me and myself]. He asked for some porridge and she threw a ladleful onto him. He ran out screaming and when asked [by his son] who hurt him he replied 'Mise 's mi fhein' to which the son...

Dates: March 1874

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about horse or cow hair, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/43

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Note about horse or cow hair collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/Islay, the meaning of which is unclear. Also, vocabulary note which reads 'Conachag = shell'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about shellfish and vocabulary note for gath [mast or oar], 21 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/16

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Note collected from Donald MacPhee, blacksmith, Brèibhig/Breivig, Barraigh/Isle of Barra telling how a very small form of cockle [strubain] could be found on Loch Lì on Beinn mhor [Beinn Mhòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]: 'very small but alive as if only embryos'. MacPhee states that the Dall Mòr told him that there was an unnamed plant which grew by Loch Lì, which if even the best-shod horse trod on it, it's horseshoe would fall off. The vocabulary note is for gath, a mast or oar.

Dates: 21 May 1869

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the places 'Sgriob-han' or 'Sgriob rua' and 'Leaca gorstach', November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/26

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Note about the place 'Sgriob-han' that it 'crosses Northton and that 'Sgriob rua' refers to it being 'the trail of the waterhorse red spots when he was losing blood when castrated'. The 'Leaca-gorstach' is the 'spar strip on face of hill east of Obbe.' [Taobh Tuath and Obbe both Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris].

Dates: November 1873

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about the use of horse and cow hair in bedding, 20 January 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/162

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Note collected from Alexander MacDonald, Cladach Chirceboist/Claddach Kirkibost, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist which reads 'Covers and blankets of horse & cows hair were the common bed clothes in Uist ri linn a Mhoraire Bhain' [in Am Morair Bàn's time].

Dates: 20 January 1871

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Note about trap dykes, 11 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/76

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Note probably colelcted from Christy MacLeod, Obbe, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris which reads 'Trap dykes are said by the old people to be the footstep of the waterhorse & waterbull.'

Dates: 11 July 1870

Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

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Charm entitled 'Gearradh an tocaidh', June 1887

Custom about maidean bhuana [corn dolly], 7 August 1886

Custom for making a mare retain a foal, 26 May 1869

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

Fragment of a story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge', March 1874

Note about horse or cow hair, June 1887

Note about shellfish and vocabulary note for gath [mast or oar], 21 May 1869

Note about the places 'Sgriob-han' or 'Sgriob rua' and 'Leaca gorstach', November 1873

Note about the use of horse and cow hair in bedding, 20 January 1871

Note about trap dykes, 11 July 1870

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