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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 1040 Collections and/or Records:

Story about a man from E òropaidh who went to Rònaidh and his sister, 27 October 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/24
Scope and Contents Story about a man from Eòropaidh/Eoropie, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis who went to Rònaidh/North Rona. The story tells how he was fed up with women quarrelling, prayed to God for a place of his own and was taken to Rònaidh by a whale. When the whale landed, the seals and otters made scraping marks in the rocks at a place called 'Sgriob nam biast'. The man's sister [Brianain] wished to follow him and ended up on Sula Sgeir where, on a clear day, she could see her brother. The text of the...
Dates: 27 October 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man murdered at sea and buried on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/22
Scope and Contents

Story telling how a lintseed [linseed] ship came ashore at Trai-Sheir [Tràigh a' Shiar, Tarasaigh/Taransay] with a man murdered by the captain and he was buried at Siatar [Sheadar].

Dates: 8 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man on Lewis who is going to build a house and is visited by a fairy, 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/32
Scope and Contents

Story about a man on Lewis [Eilean Leòdhais] who is going to build a house and is visited by a fairy.

Dates: 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man spending a year in a fairy hill near Caisteal Bheagram [Castle Beagram], c1872

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/82
Scope and Contents Story about a man spending a year in a fairy hill near Caisteal Bheagram [Castle Beagram, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story goes that on a snowy night, he was heading for the mill at Howmore [Tobha Mòr] but mistook Caisteal Bheagram for the mill. Two neighbours were also going to the mill but saw a sight in the fairy hill. They went to look at it and one was pulled in. The other went home but was accused of killing his companion. A year later he went back to the hill, put an iron spike...
Dates: c1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man swallowed up by the ground on Bearnaray, September 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/54
Scope and Contents

Story telling how a man who was ploughing with two horses on 'isle of Bearnaray' [Bernera Isle, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] was cursing when he and his horses were 'swall[ow]ed up by the opening of the earth. The hole is pointed out still'. Also noted is that there is a carn at the end of Teampall.

Dates: September 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man who comandeers a boat near Aird Huisinis, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/25
Scope and Contents

Story about a man, probably a merman, who comandeers a boat near Aird Huisinis [Àird Huisinis/Huisinis, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and never speaks a word for years before disappearing again.

Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man who removed Catholic imagery from a graveyard, August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/30
Scope and Contents

Story about a man who removed Catholic imagery from a graveyard which reads ' A man who reprobated having any papanich thing in the cladh carried down the cross & threw it into the sea at [-]. His cattle and sheep died &c & so he went and fished it up & replaced the cross.'

Dates: August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man with two sweethearts, 27 May 1869

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/59
Scope and Contents Story collected from Mary MacMillan, Lionacuidhe/Liniquie, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist telling how a man chose between two sweethearts but the spurned got vengeance by stranding the wife on the rocks at An Leumaire-rua below Ru-thiorinnis [An Leumaire Ruadh and Rubha Thornais/Hornish Point]. The man then married the other woman but while she was milking and the song beginning 'Sin do chas dhomh hug o, Sin do lamh dhomh' he heard her and realised what had happened and left her. The informant...
Dates: 27 May 1869
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a man working late, 7 July 1870

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/7
Scope and Contents

Story about a man working so late that he had no time to 'see his caora nollaig' and so the fairies 'threw his black sheep at him' and he had to take it home with him.

Dates: 7 July 1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a pious man, 1877

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/29
Scope and Contents

Story about a pious man who lived at Ru Hallain, east of Cladh Hallain, [Cille Pheadair/Kilpheadar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist].

Dates: 1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael