Customs
Found in 215 Collections and/or Records:
Note about Didonaich turneis [Di-Dòmhnaich Tùrnais/Palm Sunday], 25 March 1872
Note about Didonaich turneis [Di-Dòmhnaich Tùrnais/Palm Sunday] describing the custom of striking and rolling boiled eggs against someone else's on Palm Sunday, with the one whose egg breaks another's egg gaining that egg. Eggs are also described as being rolled on the green sward, again an individual gaining any egg their egg hits.
Note about Episcopalian burials at St Cyril's graveyard, 29 August 1883
Note about Episcopalian burials at St Cyril's graveyard [Cladh Churalain, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] describing how they run into the graveyard rather than walk and that once the coffin is removed from the bier it is smashed against a tree.
Note about Feill Churalain [St Cyril's Festival], 27 September 1883
Note about Feill Churalain [Fèill Churalain/St Cyril's Festival] collected from John Livingstone 'Muillear Mòr', Portnacroish, Appin [Port na Crois, Apainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] aged 73, that it was held at Sgeir a' Phobuill, that the girls of Glencreran would have 'babagan beithe' (tassles of birch) and that it was held on 16 March 'Cuiralain an diugh us Pàdruig am màireach' ('Curalan today and Patrick tomorrow'). Also notes that St Cyril's Church was built of clay.
Note about funeral customs, c1872
Note about funeral customs including that in Barra [Barraigh] corpses were left above ground for forty-eight hours, while in Uist [Uibhist] it would be three, four or five days; that 'an t-seisig' was 'the tuirream after the corpse'; and that John MacDonald of Strombane's father [Srom Bàn, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] used to pipe after the funeral. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere and a small addition has been made in ink.
Note about Gaisgeir, 9 July 1870
Note about Gaisgeir [Gàisgeir/Gasker] that it is a small island where about thirty ewes are kept as they thrive on the many plants that grow there describing the sheep as 'extra fat weigh 80 90 & 100 lbs'. Lambs are often taken from there to Tarasaigh/Taransay but 'they wither & die'.
Note about how old men in Ness shave their hair, 1884
Note about how old men in Ness [Nis, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] shave their hair describing how they 'shave the back of the head up some distance and allow the hair to fall down over this'.
Note about how St Kildans prepare an unnamed type of food, June 1887
Note about how St Kildans prepare an unnamed type of food, that they are skinned, put in water and eaten or put in 'garden earth' for twenty-four hours but are not skinned before eating but are 'excellent then!'
Note about Muckairn people and marriage customs, 1883
Note about the people of Muckairn [Mucàrna, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] probably collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, that shots would be fired at weddings there and that the sharp-tongued people of the parish were known as the 'gearra-ghobaich'.
Note about Nin Aonais ic Dhonil Bhric [Nighean Aonghais Dhòmhnaill Bhric], 3 January 1872
Note about Nin Aonais ic Dhonil Bhric [Nighean Aonghais Dhòmhnaill Bhric] that she was the last woman 'to be retained for tuireadh [keening] at fun[e]r[a]ls' and a short account of the first time she saw pigs. This was probably collected in Gramasdail/Gramsdale, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula.
Note about not allowing children to walk in the middle of the road, July 1909
Note about not allowing children to walk in the middle of the road 'at night lest a funeral should meet them. To avoid machines on the road'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.