Funeral Rites and Ceremonies
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Note about biers, 27 September 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/148
Scope and Contents
Note about biers and that they are broken because 'tanasg nan corp & sithich' [ghosts and fairies] used to carry them away, collected from Donald MacColl, brocair (fox hunter), [Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].
Dates:
27 September 1883
Note about St Cyril's graveyard, 29 August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/95
Scope and Contents
Note possibly collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about St Cyril's graveyard [Cladh Churalain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] and how the biers of the 'Eaglaish Shass[anach]' [English Church (Episcopal Church)] 'are smashed against an aged gnarled low cuilion holly tree after it carries up the dead' there, whereas presbyterian biers are covered with a cloth.
Dates:
29 August 1883