Cures
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Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 39 Collections and/or Records:
Remedy for tinneas tuiteamas [epilepsy] and accompanying story, 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/336
Scope and Contents
Remedy for tinneas tuiteamas or epilepsy in which a cockerel is buried alive with its feet tied together and three sixpences and a cairn built over the top. Says that girls from 2, Glen Street, Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] say that they saw this done in Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ròs is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty], and that a hole was dug but nettles grew there every year despite tilling the ground.
Dates:
1887
Remedy using dog fat entitled 'Lòni - Cure', August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/30
Scope and Contents
Description of a remedy made using dog fat entitled 'Lòni - Cure' with a note that it was a treatment used by an Indian doctor which cured Mrs Stewart of Prince Edward Island [Canada]. Also notes that one in ten people on the island have cancer.
Dates:
August 1883
Story about a woman's trip to a wise woman for a snaile, 5 Aug 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/105
Scope and Contents
Story collected from an unnamed woman Carmichael met on the road probably in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist about her trip to a wise woman for a snaile. She had gone to the wise woman because she had a cow which was unwell and she did not know why. The wise woman or witch friend as Carmichael describes her, told the woman that it was probably because a number of people had 'put the eye' on the cow and gave her two snaile, 'which she kindly showed me each about 6 or 9 inches long and twisted of...
Dates:
5 Aug 1870
Story about people coming to Cair Mualuig [Cathair Moluaig/St Moluag's Cathedral] to be healed, 2 September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/4
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Duncan Carmichael, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about people coming to Cair Mualuig [Cathair Moluaig/St Moluag's Chair] to be cured of back pain. Duncan remembers people coming from long distances such as Glencoe [Gleann Comhann].
Dates:
2 September 1870
Story about praying to Cuiralainn for healing, August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/137
Scope and Contents
Story about a woman praying to Cuiralainn [Curalan/St Cyril] for healing on a man's burnt arm. She removed her breid and kertch and used it to bind the man's arm. A voice came from behind him in the air.
Dates:
August 1883
Story about serpents, August 1886
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/35
Scope and Contents
Story about serpents telling how one at Craigag [Cragaig, Ulbha/Ulva] stung and killed a 'fine man' describing the snake's appearance and how if a dog is stung it is dipped in the sea and given milk.
Dates:
August 1886
Story entitled 'Christ', 11 September 1909
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/102
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Christ' probably collected from Catherine MacLean, crofter, Naast, Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty [Nàst, Geàrr Loch, Ros is Cromba]. The story tells of a woman who was suffering from a swollen breast and is healed by Christ. Catherine states that she healed ten or twelve similar cases in Gairloch and in Morayshire [Moireibh]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
11 September 1909
Two cures for diarrhoea, March 1874
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/66
Scope and Contents
Two cures for diarrhoea noted as being wine made from sloes, which is also an astringent, and a 'decoction of the root of' an unnamed plant whcih is common on the mainland but not on the islands [Na h-Eileanan Siar/Western Isles].
Dates:
March 1874
Vocabulary for plants connected with charms and remedies, 1885
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/60
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary for plants connected with charms and remedies including 'Bearnan-Brìde' (dandelion) and 'Lus na fala' (sundew).
Dates:
1885