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Prayers

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Baillie

Found in 127 Collections and/or Records:

[Song/Prayer] beginning 'Noc oich a chrochaidh chruaidh', 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/36
Scope and Contents

[Song/Prayer] beginning 'Noc oich a chrochaidh chruaidh, Ceann (crann?) cruaidh ris na chrochadh Criosd' [Criosda Cleireach Os Ar Cionn/Christ the Priest Above Us] collected from Duncan MacLellan, crofter, Càrnan/Carnan, South Uist [Uibhist a Deas].

Dates: 17 January 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Song/Prayer beginning 'Noc oiche chrochari chruai', 17 January 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/40
Scope and Contents

Song/Prayer collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, beginning 'Noc oiche chrochari chruai, Ceann cruai ris na chroch Criost'. Carmichael notes the dinal line 'Criost cleir os ar cionn' as being repeated. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 17 January 1874
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a goose [giodh] outwitting a fox [sionnach], June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/185
Scope and Contents

Story about a goose [giodh] outwitting a fox [sionnach] whereby the goose tells the fox he needs to say grace before he can eat and the fox has to let go of the goose in order to do so. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about Curalainn [Curalan/St Cyril] answering a prayer, 1884

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/255
Scope and Contents

Story about Curalainn [Curalan/St Cyril] answering a prayer, in which Ciorstan Mòr from Creag [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] invoked Curalan with the prayer 'O chaomh Chu[ralainn] [tonn] aighearrach ort' to deal with youths who had defiled images of saints.

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

Story about praying to Cuiralainn for healing, August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/137
Scope and Contents

Story about a woman praying to Cuiralainn [Curalan/St Cyril] for healing on a man's burnt arm. She removed her breid and kertch and used it to bind the man's arm. A voice came from behind him in the air.

Dates: August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about praying to Cuirralain for healing, 29 August 1883

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/83
Scope and Contents Story about the burning of the wooden holy images or statues [of saints Columba, Moluag and Cyril/Curalan] by local young men possibly collected from Mary Carmichael, aged 71, Druimavuic, Glencreran [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. An old woman at Leitir-ru-Altain [Letterwalton, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] called out to Cuirralain [Curalan/St Cyril] and he appeared before her and said, 'Mas duil leat an duine sin cuimich a lamh.' The woman took the breid (kertch) from her head and bound the...
Dates: 29 August 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about the 'Inverawe Sneeze', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/57
Scope and Contents

Story about the 'Inverawe Sneeze' that an old lady was reading prayers for the household when it came on 'She stopped and said to herself "Deil take the Inverawe sneeze'' but Mrs Carmichael (Rev Donald)' [Jane Carmichael née Smith, wife of Rev Donald Carmichael] could 'hardly go on with the prayer'.

Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

The Arab at Prayer, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/3427
Scope and Contents

Illustration of an Arabic man praying next to his camel in the desert.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

The Way of Prayer: Prayer and Work, 1937

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Identifier: BAI 1/6/16
Scope and Contents

Broadcast by John Baillie, examining the issue of how to find time to pray.

Dates: 1937
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor John Baillie, and Baillie Family Papers / Papers of John Baillie / Broadcasts

[Untitled] almanac, 1091 AH, 1680 CE

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Identifier: Or Ms 729
Scope and Contents An untitled almanac, showing conversion tables and diagrams (including a volvelle and an image of the Kaʿbah) for calculating days of the week, multiannual cycles, the months of the Syrian (Christian) calendar, and the months of the Islamic lunar (Hijri) calendar in conjunction with twelve astrological phases for calculating the solar year. The reader is guided by densely written quotations attributed to a certain Şeyh Vefa (Shaykh Vafāʾ) focussed on calculations for the ...
Dates: 1091 AH; 1680 CE
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia