Tales
Found in 1040 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Righ Eirinn', 21 January 1866
Story entitled 'Rocabarrai', 26 April 1872
Story entitled 'Rocabarraidh', 26 April 1872
Story entitled 'Ron', 29 January 1875 and 7 October 1875
Story entitled 'Saothach Maoldonaich', September 1872
Story entitled 'Sea-Serpent', February 1874
Story entitled 'Sea-Serpent' in which the informant vividly tells Carmichael how he once saw a sea-serpent at dawn on Loch huntain [-] coming close to him. He 'thought it was someth[ing] unnat[ural]' and he felt his 'Knees Knocking' but soon saw that it was a line of five otters, holding the otter in front by its tail. 'When they land[ed] they disengaged - & lay down in a cuach (ring) in a place evidently used f[or] it.'
Story entitled 'Sgeul Chois O Cèin' and accompanying notes, 5 July 1865 to 25 March 1870
Story entitled 'Sgialac Fhinn', 9 May 1866
Story entitled 'Sgialac Gas Gruaige' and accompanying note, 25 March 1871
Story entitled 'Sgialac Gas Gruaige' collected from Patrick Smith, Ceann a Deas Loch Baghasdail/South Boisdale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist which tells how... The accompanying note states that Smith heard the story fifty years before [about 1820] from an old woman.
Story entitled 'Sgrios nam Piocach', 13 January 1865
Story entitled 'Sgrios nam Piocach' [The Destruction of the Picts] collected from Aonas Mac Aonais [Angus MacInnes], crofter, Smearclait [Smeircleit/Smerclete, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] which tells how King Kenneth [Kenneth mac Alpin] waged war on the Picts and killed them all. Carmichael notes 'Chual Aonas Mac Aonais so bho aithait - nis na fhior shean dhuine.' [Angus heard this from his father who is now a very old man.]