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Children

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

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'An leanabh Ileach' and vocabulary note, August 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/53
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Story entitled 'An leanabh Ileach' in which a mother feeding her child spills egg over its mouth but pretends that it is ruddy and healthy 'Mo ruiteachan mo ruiteachan' but the child points out that the food missed his mouth. The vocabulary note reads 'Uaillean = Valentine'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: August 1909

Story entitled 'An Leanadh Ileach', c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/27
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Story entitled 'An Leanadh Ileach' [An Leanabh Ìleach] about a precocious child or changeling who became 'An t-ollamh Ileach' that is a doctor probably from the Beaton family.

Dates: c1875

Story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', 1860 to 1861

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/2
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] on 14 November 1860. The story tells of how a farmer went out hunting and on growing weary lay down to sleep. On waking up he found the heather growing all around him and his dogs dead. When he arrived home, his son who was a baby when he left had grown up and all his servants...
Dates: 1860 to 1861

Story entitled 'Mac Dhearg', 29 January 1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/121
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Mac Dhearg' [Muc Dhearg] collected from Iain Macinnes [John MacInnes], aged 70 years, Staoligeary [Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells of a woman in Howgearry [Hogha Gearraidh/Hougharry, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] whose child is replaced by a changeling and all he will say is ''muc dhearg muc dhearg'. MacIlleMhoire sends the woman and child to MacMhuirich Mòr in Stilligarry who manages to change the child back by repeating 'Muc dhearg'...
Dates: 29 January 1875

Story entitled 'Sitheach an sliochd Leanabh Beag' about a fairy child, 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/137
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Sitheach an sliochd Leanabh Beag' about two women whose children had been swapped with fairy children. The first would not stop eating or drinking or crying, so on the advice of an old woman she threw the child in the river. The instant she did that her own child came back. The second woman's fairy child would not stop crying and was not growing. She told the child she was tired of him and he replied that if she kept it a secret he would give her a rest and do some dancing...
Dates: 1891

The Myles Children, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2017
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Photograph of the two Myles children riding donkeys in Argentina in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Thirteen-Year-Old Girl as "Trainer", 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1999
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Photographs of Naomi Shankland, the thirteen year-old daughter of John Shankland of Effingham, Surrey taking care of racehorses on her father's farm in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Three sayings or proverbs, 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/97
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Three sayings or proverbs beginning 'Is furasda dh'fhear eisdeachd Beum fhaighinn/thoir a dh-fhear labhairt'; 'Co seolta ri sionnach na Maoile' and 'Mionnan bi-bhuan da a mac'.

Dates: 1895

[Two Children with a Goat Cart], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3450
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Photograph of a little boy sitting on a small cart holding the reins of a goat that has been harnessed to it with a little girl standing next to the goat in a yard in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Vocabulary note entitled 'Al & Fual', 1895

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/77
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Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Al & Fual' including 'Al is generally one of the old Celtic names for water' citing examples such as 'Algeal an old decease common to young people if weak spine which generally follows after too much running in hot weather.' Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1895