Death
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 157 Collections and/or Records:
Story about the Baron of Bachuil being called for by a man on his deathbed, September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/71
Scope and Contents
Story telling how Donl du tearn [Dòmhnall Dubh Tighearna or Sir Donald Campbell of Airds, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] sent for the Baron of Bachuil while he was on his deathbed but his wife never sent the messenger for him. It notes that Dòmhnall used to 'preach in the ag[e]s of episcopy.'
Dates:
September 1870
Story about the custom of throwing a ball of thread into a kiln to find out the name of one's husband, c1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/34
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Story about the custom of throwing a ball of thread into a kiln at night to find out the name of one's husband. On one occasion, young men got into the kiln without the young women knowing. As each girl threw her ball of thread into kiln asking 'Co sid shuas air ceann mo ropain?' [Who is at the end of my thread?] a young man would put on a false voice and give her the answer she wanted to hear. When the third girl asked, the young man joked that he was the devil 'come to take you away for...
Dates:
c1870
Story about the death of Rob Tigherna, August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/133
Scope and Contents
Story about the death of Rob Tighearna [Robert Stewart of Appin], that while 'the whole of Appin' attended his funeral, his son Dual [Dùghall] [Dugald Stewart of Appin] did not but instead stayed at home. He spent the gold which Rob had left and sold his property [to Hugh Seton of Touch]. A piper called MacInnes from Glencoe played for the funeral from Leitir Shiuna to Aird Chattan [Leitir Sìuna/Lettershuna, Àird Chatain/Ardchattan, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire], a distance of 15 miles: 'He...
Dates:
August 1883
Story about the King of Spain's daughter and MacLean of Duart, 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/68
Scope and Contents
Story probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay about the daughter of the King of Spain and MacLean of Duart. In the story the King of Spain's daughter has a dream about MacLean of Duart and so decides to go and find him. On arriving in Duart, Am Muile/Isle of Mull she meets him and asks him to go to Spain with her. To get rid of her he blows up the boat and then decides to get rid of his wife as well. He strands his wife on 'sgeir McLean' at Sliosmore...
Dates:
1867
Story about the lack of rats on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/40
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Story collected from Don MacInnon [Donald MacKinnon] about the lack of rats on Tarasaigh/Taransay, telling how a Taransay man went to live in Lews [Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] but was plagued with rats. An old woman said she could send the rats to Taransay for him which she 'greatly to his relief' did and after a a short while of being on Taransay they were all dead. MacKinnon also notes that some rats were brought ashore by fishermen but were found dead at Aird nan Ceall...
Dates:
9 July 1870
Story about the Ly Erg and three brothers, July 1909
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/16
Scope and Contents
Story about the Ly Erg and three brothers in which Ly Erg, dressed as a soldier and with one red hand, challenged three brothers to a fight immediately after which they all died. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
July 1909
Story about the Nic Gillemhicheil [Carmichael] ghost, September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/44
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Story about the Nic Gillemhicheil [NicGilleMhìcheil/Carmichael] ghost that she haunted the Glen faochan family by walking to and fro between her two tolamain [tolmain or burial mounds] wailing. When her voice was heard it was thought to herald the death of a member of the family who would say 'O its only NicGillmh[ìcheil] bhoc[d].'
Dates:
September 1870
Story about the population of Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay], 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/34
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Story about the population of Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay], probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, describing how three hundred years previously [c1560] MacNeil of Barra sent a boat over to the island during winter to see why there was a lack of activity. A man named MacPhie was sent on land to find out 'When he came to the houses which then stood on a rocky [Rua] N[orth] E[ast] of the present village he found all within dead.' On arriving back at the boat MacPhie was asked what he had...
Dates:
1867
Story about the prophecy of a young man's death, 1901
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/89
Scope and Contents
Story about the prophecy of a young man's death probably collected on Barraigh/Isle of Barra. The young man and his father were out on the hill when a little old man met them. He said that within a year the young man would have 'am foid tha fo chas na cluasaig fo chean' [the sod under his feet as a pillow for his head] and disappeared. The father cut the sod that was beneath his son's feet and threw it out to sea. In the summer, the son was swimming with friends in the sea at Airdbhuridh...
Dates:
1901
Story about the saints connected to Lios Mòr/Lismore, 2 September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/2
Scope and Contents
Story collected from Duncan Carmichael on the boat from An t-Òban/Oban to Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire about the saints connected to Lismore, telling how Calumcille, Moaluag and Ordhean [Calum Cille/Columba, Moluag and Oran] were brothers who were competing for the possession of Lismore. Moluag won by cutting his finger off and throwing it to shore and consequently Calum Cille went to Iona. It also tells of Oran's burial alive and how on the fourth day after he'd been...
Dates:
2 September 1870