Snakes
Subject
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
List of sayings under the heading 'Serpents', 1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/80
Scope and Contents
List of sayings under the heading 'Serpents' written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula containing six sayings related to snakes. The text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1895
Vocabulary note entitled 'Clach Nathrach' and accompanying stories, 1895
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/81
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Clach Nathrach' describing it as an 'accumulation of liquid matter form the mouth of the serpent' and where and how it is formed. He recalls having seeing a clach nathrach when at school in Uig, Lewis which was found by 'the herd boy of Croulista...on the south side of Suanaval hill' [Suaineabhal, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis]. MacRury notes the clach nathrach as being valued for its healing properties...
Dates:
1895