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Plants

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 142 Collections and/or Records:

Note entitled 'The blessed bramble', 1894

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/187
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Note entitled 'The blessed bramble' noting the tradition that Christ used a bramble branch to hit the donkey he rode and querying its veracity.

Dates: 1894

Note on Achlasan C[haluim]-Chille, 28 October 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/101
Scope and Contents Note on Achlasan C[haluim]-Chille [St John's Wort/St Columba's Plant] probably collected from Archibald Currie, aged forty-six, shoemaker, Iocar [Ìochdar], Uibhist a Deas/South Uist describing how it is [collected] 'gun sire[adh] gun iar[raidh]' and 'is scraped ag[ainst] its bark and a crosgag (a ring) is made and placed in the bottom of the milk [boyne].' The note also describes the 'cneapag' which is made before the crosgag is made. Calum Cille [St Columba] is described as 'the best herd...
Dates: 28 October 1872

Note on 'Foineachun' [foinneachan], 28 October 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/102
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Note on 'Foineachun' [foinneachan or warts] probably collected from Archibald Currie, aged forty-six, shoemaker, Iocar [Ìochdar], Uibhist a Deas/South Uist describing how an old woman in Bornish [Bornais] cured her warts using straws and multiples of nine so that there were eighty-one [straws] for each wart. These were buried in a pit until they withered and the warts were gone. The text is unclear in its meaning.

Dates: 28 October 1872

Note on plants, 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/89
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Note on the plant fionn-faoilteach which 'is pulled and carried to the ceart court and which ensures victory'.

Dates: 1891

Note that juniper berries are 'successful for epilepsy', September

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/158
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Note that juniper berries are 'successful for epilepsy'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September

Note which reads 'Dyes - Alder bark Roid (bog myrtle) brambles', 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/249
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Note which reads 'Dyes - Alder bark Roid (bog myrtle) brambles'

Dates: 1884

Notes about the origins of the Patons in Uist [Uibhist] and cures, 3 February 1874

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/49
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Note about the origins of the Patons [or Beatons] in Uist [Uibhist] that they are descended from the Olla[mh] Ileach [Ollamh Ìleach], a celebrated herbalist, who lived at Dallabrog [Dalabrog/Daliburgh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. It notes that 'The cuillion [holly] that he bro[ugh]t is good for cleibh druim', that am maraich [scurvy grass] could be found in cairns on the Strand and that the best water for boiling plants was in Geary heille [Geàrraidh Sheilidh/Garryhellie].

Dates: 3 February 1874

Notes about the plants lus-mor [spearwort] and lus an acrais [hunger plant], 12 September 1890

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/3
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Notes about the plants lus-mor [lus-mòr or spearwort] and lus an acrais [hunger plant] that the former is applied to greim lòin [lumbago or rheumatism] as can the fliodh Moire [marsh chickweed]. It is unlucky to come across the latter as it causes a person to be hungry. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 12 September 1890

Notes and sayings connected to decision-making, c1868

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/2
Scope and Contents Notes and sayings connected to decision-making possibly collected from a Mrs MacDonald [identity and location unspecified] or inspired by a conversation with her recorded as, 'Mrs MacDon[ald] said the caus[es] were mom[ents] of folly. I doubt if were not re[a]s[on] as g[rea]t mo[ments] of folly every day.' He refers to the remark made by Captain Thomas about [the lazine[ss] of people to invest[ing] in his work of the Outer Hebri[de]s'. The quotes which follow relate to the farmer's...
Dates: c1868

Notes on archaeology on Isle of Barra, September 1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/164
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Notes on archaeology on Isle of Barra [Barraigh] including that tree roots and nuts are in the peatmoss there and that there are no submarine buildings. He also mentions pollagan [primitive handmills] being found near Allasdale [Allathasdal].

Dates: September 1872