Cats
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Proverb beginning 'Cuir brigis air bioran', June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/188
Scope and Contents
Proverb which reads 'Cuir brigis air bioran', S gheo e isean mhnatha! Cuir boineid air bioran, S gheo e piseag mhnatha!' Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
Seasonal changes in the coat of the cat, 1976
Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/1/559
Scope and Contents
Located in A.B.R.O. Reprints 1976. Volume 10 of 19.
Dates:
1976
Story about a storm which killed many birds, 4 June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/21
Scope and Contents
Story about a storm which killed many birds on Ìle/ Islay about 10 or 11 years previously [c1866-1867] noting that 'the cats gave up eating them', that wood-cocks were especially liked [by the cats] and that a small flock would consist of about 10-20 birds while a large flock would consist of about 60 or 80 birds. Also notes that the 'conas whins' [gocan or whin-chats] were all killed.
Dates:
4 June 1887
Story about Cugarbhat, king of the cats, c1872
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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
Story about the plague on Lismore, August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/19
Scope and Contents
Story continued from folio 6r about the plague on Lismore [Lios Mòr] and that the cats which ate the supposed plague-infected fish died immediately.
Dates:
August 1883
Story entitled 'Cat Taobh', 5 December 1884
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/272
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Cat Taobh' [Cataibh or Sutherland] collected from Angus MacPhail, Breascleit, Carlobhagh, Lews [Breasclate, Carlabhagh/Carloway, Eilean Leòdhais/Lewis] at Dr Morrison's house, Grassmarket, Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] in which a sailor lands on foreign soil and meets a king who is guarded on either side by soldiers who have their swords drawn to kill rats. The sailor says that his cat will keep rats and mice away and so he brings one ashore and on seeing that he was telling the...
Dates:
5 December 1884
Story entitled 'Cugarbhad, 'Righ nan Cat'', 16 May 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW154/4
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Cugarbhad, 'Righ nan Cat'' collected from Niall Maceachain [Neil MacEachan], crofter, Towbeag [Tobha Beag/Howbeg, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] in which Macmhurich Mor Staoligearraidh [MacMhuirich mò from Stadhlaigearraidh/Stilligarry] 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. One annotation has been made to the text in pencil.
Dates:
16 May 1872
Story entitled 'Niean an Ri', c1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/66
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Niean an Ri' [Nighean an Rìgh / The King's Daughter]. At the end of the story Carmichael notes 'As a parallelt (sic) to this see Gleann a Chait Chao'aich in Book No [-]'.
Dates:
c1872
Superstition that a cat washing his face brings strangers, 1884
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/263
Scope and Contents
Superstition that a cat washing his face brings strangers.
Dates:
1884
Vocabulary note for wild animals, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/197
Scope and Contents
Vocabulary note for wild animals which reads 'Martin = Taghan P[ole] cat. Feocarlan Broc-munaid B[roc] coin'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887