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Story about an encounter with fairies, 16 December 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/59

Scope and Contents

Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula telling how about sixty years before [c1834] Lachlan MacRuaraidh [Lachlan MacRury], Ardmona, Iochdar, [Àird na Monadh/Ardnamona, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] was out looking for a lost stirk at dusk. Near Tigh Cloiche, Mointeach an Ìochdar, he saw what he thought was the men of Ìochdar digging lazy beds. As he approached them he realised they were not men 'for they all wore a green long garbe and a sort of green[e]d soft headdress shadowing their foreheads. Their faces were long and slim and entirely different from natural beings'. To scare them off he addressed them directly and confidently and they 'disappeared into the Tigh Cloiche as if they were pouring seeds with a sieve into a loban.'

Dates

  • Creation: 16 December 1894

Language of Materials

Gaelic,English

Conditions Governing Access

This material is unrestricted.

Extent

From the Series: 114 folios ; 14 x 20 cm

Physical Location

5.07

Physical Location

folio 24v, line 1 to folio 26v, line 10

Repository Details

Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository

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