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Hunting

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

Found in 82 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'Gleann Li-un', October 1890

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/38
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Gleann Li-un' [Gleann Lìomhann/Glen Lyon, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire] collected from an unnamed informant about a battle that took place between the 'Robertson Campbells & MacGregor & the Clann Imhear' [MacIver], the MacIvers being killed. The MacGregors came down from Bunrainich [Raineach/Rannoch], battled at Lagan a chatha and stopped at Camus nan Cam [Camus nan Càrn] to wash. At a ford in the River Lyon 'the river ran red with blood' and it is said that the river...
Dates: October 1890
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story under the heading 'Roin' and accompanying songs, c1875

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/41
Scope and Contents Story under the heading 'Roin' telling how a crew from Howgearraidh [Hogha Gearraidh/Hougharry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] were hunting on Cousmal [Causmal] and caught a lot of seals. A farmer took a load of them home and put them at the end of the house so that they would stay cold. in the house was a nurse who was looking after a baby and heard a big seal coming to life and saw it kiss a small seal and singing a song beginning 'Spòg Spaidrich òig, Spog mo Chaidhich choir'. The song...
Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Superstition about killing swans and seals and accompanying stories, 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/338
Scope and Contents Superstition about killing swans and seals, it being deemed unlucky, and accompanying stories including how Mr Beatson of Sheildag in Gairloch [Sldeag/Shieldaig, Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ròs is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] killed a swan and soon after his wife and children died and he lost much of his money in a lawsuit with a servant. Similary, Mr Osgood MacKenzie of Inverewe [Am Ploc Àrd] killed a swan and he separated from his wife after that. Note asks 'Is it because maidens are sometimes turned...
Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

The Chase of the Wild Red Stag on Exmoor, 1907

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Identifier: Coll-1618/2/6/1/3
Scope and Contents

An observation of a stag hunt through the eyes of someone who opposes the blood sport, observed and notated by Lord Coleridge (possibly Stephen Coleridge).

Published by the Animals' Friend, from an article in the Nineteenth Century, October, 1907

Dates: 1907
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of OneKind animal welfare charity / Campaigns / Protection of Wild Mammals / leaflets and pamphlets

The Hunting of the Stag, 1935

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1618/2/6/1/1
Scope and Contents

"The Hunting of the Stag", is an article written by Edith Ward about the cruelty related to stag hunting. The article contains descriptions of stag hunts and sources which illustrates the suffering and injuries caused to both deer and dogs in the process of hunting.

This publication was published by the National Society for the Abolition of Cruel Sports.

Dates: 1935
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Records of OneKind animal welfare charity / Campaigns / Protection of Wild Mammals / leaflets and pamphlets

Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1860 to c1866

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112
Scope and Contents Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael. The majority of the volume has been used but intermittently there are groups of blank folios. Carmichael appears to have written in the book in the 1860s creating sections of different genres at different stages in the volume, with pages left blank in between to fill up appropriately. In about 1875 he has then used some of these blank pages to transcribe notes and stories but has not kept to the genres sections he initially created....
Dates: 1860 to c1866
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Two stories about shooting birds, June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/113
Scope and Contents

Two stories about shooting birds including that [-] Ross, gamekeeper, shot a forked tailed gled [kite] in 1884 and that in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist he tried to shot at a greylag goose and on going to retrieve it, it was taken by a peregrine falcon and eaten before he got to it. He shot at the falcon but failed and eventually got it by setting a trap. The falcon went into the possession of Captain John [Maccalum]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Two stories and accompanying songs about seals under the heading 'Roin', c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/35
Scope and Contents Two stories and accompanying songs about seals under the heading 'Roin' collected from Iain Macaonais [John MacInnes], Staolagearrai [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] on 29 January 1875. The first story tells how a woman had boiled a seal and thrown its bones on the midden whereupon an big, old, grey woman appaered and sang a song beginning, 'Spog Finaghala spog spaidrich', the song being composed of three lines. The second story tells how another man had killed a...
Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Two stories of sparrows caught by merlins in Edinburgh, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/115
Scope and Contents

Two stories of sparrows caught by merlins in Edinburgh which relates how one was caught in front of a cab driving along Princes Street and another at Portobello in 1887. Also notes that a white-winged sparrow had been seen in Princes Street. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for 'Goisneach' [snare], June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/182
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note for 'Goisneach' [snare] which reads 'Goisneach Goisneachan-ean A bird snare of horse hair'.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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