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Cats

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

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Story about Cugarbhat, king of the cats, c1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/87
Scope and Contents

Story about Cugarbhat, king of the cats [collected from Neil MacEachen, crofter, Tobha Beag/Howbeg, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] in which Mac vurich [MacMhuirich] is out hunting and his dogs kill Cugarbhat in a cave. A cat asks MacMhuirich if his dogs killed Cugarbhat three times and on each occasion grows larger eventually jumping at MacMhuirich's throat. The text here is heavily abbreviated. A fuller version can be found in CW154 folio 30r.

Dates: c1872