Tales
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 1040 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Craicneach Hidebound cow ['cow' scored out]' and accompanying song, August 1909
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/71
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Story entitled 'Craicneach Hidebound cow ['cow' scored out]' in which three people scrape the back of a cow hide while the cow is tied up and cannot move its head. They sing a song beginning 'Ca[i]t[e] gun do sgrìobadh'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
August 1909
Story entitled 'Creag Earnaig', 1894
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/51
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Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Creag Earnaig' describing how Creag Earnaig got its name. The location is described as about two hundred and fifty yards north east of the Female Industrial School Torlum Primary School, Cnoc na Monadh/Torlum, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. The stones were once a Danish princess called Earnag, her son and midwife, who had been turned to stone by Earnag's wicked stepmother, who had followed her to Scotland, where she...
Dates:
1894
Story entitled 'Cro Mara', 5 May 1874
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/85
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Story entitled 'Cro Mara' [Crodh Mara or Sea Cattle] collected from Dun[can] Maclellan (Ban) [Donnachadh Bàn or Duncan MacLellan], Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. In the story, a widow on a remote island sees some strange cattle in her herd. She goes to the big house and asks an old man for advice. The old man tells her to keep watch night and day for a week. She does this and sees cattle coming up from the sea to her corn. She pens in the cattle, the likes of which she has never seen...
Dates:
5 May 1874
Story entitled 'Crodh Marra' [sea-cattle], 4 February 1895
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/86
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Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Crodh Marra' [crodh-mara or sea-cattle]. It tells how a man in Howgarry, North Uist [Hogha Gearraidh/Hogharry, Uibhist a Tuath] was having a difficult time, with his children and his cattle dying in infancy so on the advice of a wise old man, he decided to get one of the red and white sea cattle, which were often seen in the water near the shore. To do this he had to sprinkle 'ùir dhubh' or black loam soil on the...
Dates:
4 February 1895
Story entitled 'Cruban Dunan is Baidein', September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/61
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Story entitled 'Cruban Dunan is Baidein' telling of three brothers who were the first people to come to Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. They came from Ceannloch [Kinloch] and Crùban built Dun Chrubain [Dùn hrùban] and Dùnan and Baidein were to build together on Druim an Dunain [Druim an dùnain] but quarrelled and so Baidein left for Sailean Sligeanach in Benderloch [Sàilean Sligeanach, Meudarloch] where he built his own township, which he called Dun Bhaidein [Dùn Bhaidein]. He...
Dates:
September 1870
Story entitled 'Cu Du Mhic a Phi' and accompanying alternative version, 28 October 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/97
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Story entitled 'Cu Du Mhic a Phi' [Cù Dubh Mhic a' Phì] collected from Archibald Currie, shoemaker, Àird na Monadh, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. The story tells of the wife of the shepherd called Mac a' Phì who lives by Loch Ollabhat and is asked to provide cloth by a lady at Loch Olabhat/Loch Olavat and Bailemhanaich/Balivanich both Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula. She panics that she will not be able to meet the task and summons the fairies to help. Realising that it was probably unwise to enlist...
Dates:
28 October 1872
Story entitled 'Cugarbhad, 'Righ nan Cat'', 16 May 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW154/4
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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...
Dates:
16 May 1872
Story entitled 'Damhsa Sith' about a fairy dance, 1891
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/134
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Story entitled 'Damhsa Sith' [Dannsa Sith - Fairy Dance] about a man who spots a dance going on inside a fairy hill and goes in to join them. He dances for a year with a cask on his back when he is spotted by a neighbour passing by, who goes in to tell him he has been there a year but the man thinks he has only been there a short time.
Dates:
1891
Story entitled 'Daoine Sith' about getting rid of the fairies, May 1874
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/133
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Story entitled 'Daoine Sith' collected from Cairiseadar [Cairisiadar/Carishader, Eilean Leòdhais /Isle of Lewis] about a man who gets help from the fairies to build his house but then runs out of work for them. On the advice of an old man he suggests they make roof couples for each end of the house out of fiodhag (wild fig or wild cherry) but the fairies refuse. He then asks them to make rope the thickness of a thumb from clean sand to hold down the thatch and they fail to do this. The...
Dates:
May 1874
Story entitled 'Dealan De' [Yellow Butterfly], 30 January 1895
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/83
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Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Dealan De' [Dealan-DèYellow Butterfly]. MacRury tells how there are many kinds of Dealan-Dè but this particular kind is uncommon and did not exist until Christ had risen from the dead. They all came out of Christ's tomb. He gives a lengthy, romantic physical description of the butterfly and tells how they are never seen around wrong-doers or where there is bad language. It is good luck for the butterfly to be seen...
Dates:
30 January 1895