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Prayer entitled 'Urnuigh Togail An Teine', 1884

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/297
Scope and Contents

Prayer entitled 'Urnuigh [Urnaigh] Togail An Teine' ['Beannachadh Beothachaidh' or 'Blessing of the Kindling'] beginning 'Togamsa an teine/mo theine an diugh' which is said when setting the fire. Carmichael has written this in ink but there are three corrections made in pencil.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Prayer for protection while sleeping, 12 June 1901

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/11
Scope and Contents

Prayer for protection while sleeping collected from Peggie MacNeill, wife of Eoin Raoil, Glen, Barra [Gleann, Barraigh], beginning 'Laiem noc, Le Moir le mac, Le ailean mo Righ'. The prayer is composed of twenty-five lines. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 12 June 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Proverbs and beliefs about weather and seasons, c1861

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/8
Scope and Contents

Proverbs and beliefs about weather and seasons probably collected in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye including that whatever way the wind is blowing at midnight on 'Dialuiain traosda' [Di-luain Traosta or Handsel Monday] that will be the direction of the prevailing wind that year; and the rhyme 'Mios faoillich us naoi la sguaibaig a suas an Tearrach' ['Mìios Faoilich, Naoi latha gearrainn, Trì latha sguabaig, Suas an t-earrach.'].

Dates: c1861
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Saying beginning 'Lite is bainne' and accompanying note, July 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/30
Scope and Contents

Saying beginning 'Lite is bainne' and accompanying note which states that 'lagan' is taken with porridge. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: July 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Ailean Duinn' and accompanying story, 9 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/44
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Ailean Duinn' [Ailein Duinn] collected from Roderica MacDonald, Tarasaigh/Taransay beginning 'Meud nan siantan us fuac[hd] na gaillein, Dh fhuad[aich] sin na fir on challa'. The song is composed of forty three lines. The accompanying story tells of how Ann Campbell, the composer of the song came to be buried at sea, owing to the tradition that if while at sea a mermaid was seen, the only was to get rid of it was to throw something into the water. The mermaid present on this...
Dates: 9 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'An Cluain Rainich' and accompanying story, 28 May 1869 and 18 June 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/65
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'An Cluain Rainich' collected from Margaret Morrison, aged 36 years, Sliabh Ghriminis, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula beginning 'Seidlanach mi sa chluian rainich, Smulad mi smi eir maineol'. The song is composed of fifty-nine lines, some of which are annotated or amended. The accompanying story attributes the song to Màiri Nighean Alasdair Ruaidh and tells how she was brought to Uibhist/Uist by Clanranald, unmarried, and was married 'on guala Ruaiveal [Ruabhal/Rueval] after having...
Dates: 28 May 1869 and 18 June 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Duan Callaig', 19 October 1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/117
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Duan Callaig' [The Song of Hogmanay or Heire Bannag or Hey The Gift] collected from Gilleaspa Moriston [Archibald Morrison], Staonabrig [Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Triuir a noc[hd] mar oi[dh]che chasga, Mar oi[dh]che bhuchain bhachain sgrios'. The song is composed of twenty-two lines and has been scored through in ink. Written transversely across the first page of text is 'Transcribed into Book No 3 page 98 A[lexander] A[rchibald]...
Dates: 19 October 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Duan Callaig' and accompanying custom, 20 November 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/28
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Duan Callaig' [The Song of Hogmanay] collected from Gilleaspa Donnullach [Archibald MacDonald], shoemaker, Bailanloch, Uist a Chinn a Tuath [Baile Loch/Baleloch, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'Nist o thainc sinn an duthaich, A dh'urachadh dhuibh na Callaig' and comprising seven verses. Additions have been made to the text in pencil. The custom describes how the 'luc-callain went sun-wise three times round the house' and in Uist [Uibhist] where the 'luc-callain' may be...
Dates: 20 November 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Duan Callaig' and accompanying note, 20 November 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/11
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Duan Callaig' [The Song of Hogmanay] collected from Gilleaspa Donullach [Gilleasbuig Dòmhnallach/Archibald MacDonald], Baileanloch [Baile Loch, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'Nist o thainic sin an duaich, A dh ur[achadh] dhui[bh] na callaig'. The note states that the singers '3 times went round on the tota wall of hou[se] with a seice [hide] striking it per[haps] 12 persons.' Text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 20 November 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Song entitled 'Oran Alastair ic Colla' and accompanying note, 19 October 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/116
Scope and Contents Song entitled 'Oran Alastair ic Colla', collected from Seonaid Churrai [Janet Currie], aged 70 years, Staonebrig [Staoinebrig/Stoneybridge, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] beginning 'Hile inn o ho, a, huill o ro han, Hilleirin ho, Mul[adach] Mul[adach] tha mi, Dire[adh] na bein[ne] sga tearnad[h]'. The song is composed of forty-two lines. The accompanying note reads 'Aoine is a for[tunate] day many per[sons] will not do anything on Friday - cut not peats corn or lift pot[atoes]'. The text has...
Dates: 19 October 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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