Story and notes about eels and dog-fish, 24 June 1887
Scope and Contents
Story and notes about eels and dog-fish collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann]. MacAulay states that morgan [dog-fish] stick to rocks like muc-creige [wrasse] and that an eel once caught a man at Lochdibaig [Loch Diabaig, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but he killed it and found it was full of goll-luachair [reeds] which are used by coopers for barrels. It was thought that the eels had eaten the reeds in Loch Diabaigas Airde [Loch Diabaig As Àirde] and come down to Loch Diabaig. He notes that the biorach or dogfish, 'brings forth like dog' and tells how a man caught a large dogfish, which he cut open and out came many young fish some of which he then caught 'whiel they were swimming about.' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates
- Creation: 24 June 1887
Language of Materials
English Gaelic
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 53 folios ; 17.2 x 10.5 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 25r, line 12 to folio 25v, line 10
Subject
Creator
- From the Fonds: Carmichael, Alexander, 1832-1912 (Excise officer | folklorist and antiquarian | Edinburgh | Scotland) (Person)
- From the Fonds: Watson, William John, 1865-1948 (Professor of Celtic) (Person)
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