Story about a Bean Nithidh [washerwoman], January 1871
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/158
Scope and Contents
Story about a man in Sgir Mhiongais in Skye, possibly Ruandunain [Minginis/Minginish, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye], who met a bean-nighe [washer-woman] who gave him a gri'eagag [griogag or bead] and told him that as long as he kept it he would be happy. This happened but one day his brother put on his vest for church and discovered the griogag sewn into the vest. He looked at it losely then raised it up but when he lowered his hand it had disappeared. It was never found and the man who was given it began to encounter disaster and misfortune. He fell ill and on his deathbed told his brother about the griogag. His brother told this story to George Stoddart, sheep manager at Newton, North Uist [Uibhist a Tuath].
Dates
- January 1871
Language of Materials
Gaelic English
Conditions Governing Access
This material is unrestricted.
Extent
From the Series: 64 folios ; 19.5 x 23 cm
Physical Location
5.07
Physical Location
folio 61r, line 7 to folio 61v, line 8
- Beads
- Bracadale (parish) Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
- Charms
- Clothing and dress
- Fairies
- Fortune
- Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
- Minginish Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
- Newton North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- North Uist Inverness-shire Scotland
- Stoddart, George, c1825-1910 (sheep manager | Scolpaig | North Uist | Inverness-shire | Scotland)
- Tales
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)
Repository Details
Part of the University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections Repository
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Centre for Research Collections
University of Edinburgh Main Library
George Square
Edinburgh EH8 9LJ Scotland
+44(0)131 650 8379
is-crc@ed.ac.uk