Fasts and Feasts
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = Baillie
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Custom of horse racing, gathering carrots and celebrations on the Isle of Barra on saints days, 25 September 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/109
Scope and Contents
Custom of horse racing, gathering carrots and celebrations on the Isle of Barra [Barraigh] on saints days including that on La Fheill Barra [St Barr's Day] and St Michael's Day [La Fheill Mìcheil] men would race horses three times round the cemetery at Cille Bharra and at Borve [Borgh] respectively. The man would always have a woman sitting behind him. Also, after mass on the Sunday, girls would dig up wild carrots and collect them in the pockets of a while plaid with red stripes. The cloth...
Dates:
25 September 1872
Custom of 'Oiche an Da Shuiper' [The Night of the Two Suppers], 1904
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/31
Scope and Contents
Custom of 'Oiche an Da Shuiper' [The Night of the Two Suppers], which was held on 22 June each year. In Cataibh/Sutherland there was a supper at nine o'clock and another at midnight. 'The time between was passed in great festivities dancing and singing'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1904
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, August 1903 to July 1904
Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178
Scope and Contents
Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, which he used to collect material mainly from a Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra and Margaret Campbell née Stewart and her husband Andrew, tinkers at Bohespic, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire. There are twenty folios the first fourteen of which contain text. Most of the material was collected from Mary MacRae, who sang several waulking songs and...
Dates:
August 1903 to July 1904
List of saints' days and feast days entitled 'Days' and accompanying sayings, c1893
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/36
Scope and Contents
List of saints' days and feast days entitled 'Days' including the date of each occasion and two sayings which read 'La fheill Sheath[ain] is t samhradh, Theid a chuthag da taigh geamh[radh]' and 'La Samhna their Gamhna ris na laigh, La Ill Sheathain theirear aighean rin n dheigh'.
Dates:
c1893
List of sayings about different saints' days, 20 November 1873
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/13
Scope and Contents
List of sayings about different saints days on which different manual tasks should be started or carried out such as ' Di daoine La Chal[uim-chille] chaoimh etc' [Diardaoin Latha Chaluim Chille chaoimh], La Bealtain light fires'.
Dates:
20 November 1873
Note about a banquet held by Kind Edward, August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/31
Scope and Contents
Note about a banquet which King Edward held when his son received a knighthood in which he vowed 'to devote the rest of his days to exact revenge from the murderer [Robert the Bruce] himself', noted as being taken from 'Green's history, page 205'.
Dates:
August 1883
Sermons (2), 1910-1960
Sub-Series
Identifier: BAI 1/5/2
Scope and Contents
Assorted sermons given by John Baillie throughout most of his professional life, including a set for Good Friday and another given at the Chapel of Union Theological Seminary.
Dates:
1910-1960
Two proverbs relating to Lent and Easter, June 1887
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/144
Scope and Contents
Two proverbs relating to Lent and Easter which read 'A chiad Dimairt an tSolus Earraich Dimairt Inid' and 'Seac seacainean o aois gu bas eadar Caisg 'us Inid.'
Dates:
June 1887
Whitsunday broadcast, 1945
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Identifier: BAI 1/6/21
Scope and Contents
Broadcast by John Baillie, examining the meaning of Whitsunday (includes prayers).
Dates:
1945