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Tales

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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 poor Benbecula man building an airidh [sheiling] on South Uist

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/46
Scope and Contents Story about a poor Benbecula [Beinn na Faoghla] man building an airidh [sheiling] on South Uist [Uibhist a Deas] collected from Hector MacIosaig [Hector MacIsaac], Kean Langabhat, Iochdar [Ceann Langabhat, Ìochdar, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells how he came to Stoneybridge [Staoinebrig] and saw that others went to Hellisdale [Sheileasdal] to make an airidh there as fish and milk were so plentiful. He decided to go a little further to Glen Liadail [Gleann Liathdail] but he and...
Dates: 1870 to 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a razor fish containing a pearl, March 1874

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/75
Scope and Contents

Story about Norman Macphairc [Norman Park], a poor man, catching a razor fish containing a pearl off Bearnarey [Beàrnaraigh/Berneray].

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

Story about a red horse and accompanying saying about Beinn Eadar, 1873

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/35
Scope and Contents

Story about a red horse set around Maruig [Màraig, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and accompanying saying about Beinn Eadar which reads ''S fhada bhuam fhi[n] bonn Beinn eadar, Shada bhuam fhi[n] Beal a ghormail'. A note states that Beinn Eadar is now An Cliseam [An Cliseam/Clisham, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] and that Beal[ach] a Ghormail is east of the foot of An Cliseam near Maruig.

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

Story about a sailor's dream becoming a reality, 1901

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/14
Scope and Contents

Story which tells how Eachan MacKinnon [Hector MacKinnon], a sailor, was on a vessel lost at sea and dreamt that his paternal grandmother told him that they would see land 'at 3pm the day after tomorrow'. He told the ship's mate and they saw land as predicted. MacKinnon is described as 'a famous mariner and very quick in tongue and act.'

Dates: 1901
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Story about a seal in the form of a woman and accompanying song, c1875

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/39
Scope and Contents Story about a seal in the form of a woman which tells how a number of seals were caught on Taisgeir [Eilean Hasgeir/Haskeir Island] and a woman in Paible [Paibeil, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] was boiling the seal's bones when another woman came in. The first woman did not recognise her but offered her a seat but she stood staring at the pot. All of a sudden she started singing a song beginning 'Smeirig s an tir s smeirig san tir is, (Far) n ichear na daoine a rioc a bhidh'. After this she...
Dates: c1875
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a shipwreck, August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/38
Scope and Contents

Story about a shipwreck which reads 'In Lunga large ship full of cotton broken & all lost there.'

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

Story about a sick woman in an unthatched house, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/33
Scope and Contents Story about a sick woman in an unthatched house on Miùghlaigh/Mingulay in which Carmichael was encouraged by 'My old friend Ruary' [Roderick MacNeil] to visit the sick woman even although Carmichael did not know her as Roderick thought she would appreciated it. On arriving at the house he was surprised that the woman was young and 'comely' but saw that she was completely paralysed with rheumatism. He also noticed that there was only a tiny amount of roof over the bed where she lay as 'The...
Dates: 1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a snake, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/23
Scope and Contents Story about a snake which tells how Donald [Currie], the grandfather of 'Fear Bhollsa na h-Uamh Moire' [Uamh Mhòr, Bolsa, Ìle/ Islay] knew that something was wrong with his cows' milk when he saw a serpent coiled on a hillock at the sheiling. The snake was the biggest he'd seen being about nine feet in length. Donald found two bullets in his gun and shot it dead. The story states that seven score [140] snakes were killed [on the island] the previous year [1876] and nine score [180] the year...
Dates: June 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a St Kilda man surviving a fall, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/51
Scope and Contents

Story about a St Kilda [Hiorta] man surviving a fall from the rocks where he was hunting because 'the birds he had round his belt kept him afloat.' It adds that he was driven to North Uist [Uibhist a Tuath].

Dates: 1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Story about a stoat at Laggan Ullva [Lagganulva], 7 August 1886

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/7
Scope and Contents

Story probably collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, about a stoat seen making its den in a milk churn at Laggan Ullva [Lagan Ulbha/Lagganulva, Ulbha/Ulva] by Myles Fletcher from Greenock [Grianaig, Siorrachd Rinn Friù/Renfrewshire]. The handwriting is difficult to read.

Dates: 7 August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael