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 'na brari dearga' reputed original inhabitants [of Uist], c1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/54
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Story about 'na brari dearga' reputed original inhabitants [of Uist] that they were completely naked and would tan themselves with bark from the trees that used to be there. Also tells how the chief would have three red stripes on his arm, a colour which was obtained from some liquid from the trees.
Dates:
c1872
Story about Naomh Blianain blessing the graveyards of the Long Isle [Western Isles], 28 May 1869
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/60
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Story collected from Duncan MacLellan, mason and crofter, Carnan [Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist]. The story tells how Rìgh Lochlann's two children Mor and Aula Dearg were playing outside one day when they found a 'coit an dà ramh' [small boat]. They got into it and although the day had started pleasantly a wind soon got up and carried them away. They landed at Amhuinn Hough [Abhainn Thobha Mòr/Howmore River]. They grew up and Mòr died and was buried at Hough [Tobha Mòr/Howmore]. When her...
Dates:
28 May 1869
Story about Nighean Uspaid and St Columba's Chapel at Howmore, c1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/80
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Story about Nighean Uspaid and St Columba's Chapel at Howmore [Caibeal nan Sagart/Caibeal nan Sagairt, Tobha Mòr, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] probably collected from Neil Maceachain [Neil MacEachan, crofter, Tobha Beag/Howbeg]. The story states that Nighean Uspaid travelled with masons, preparing their food for them and they made a grave for her in all the churches in Scotland. The location of 'Leaba Nin Uspaid' is described, and the ancient and newer chapels are differentiated as Caibeal Mòr...
Dates:
c1872
Story about Olaghaire and the MacLeods in Skye, 13 September 1873
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW105/16
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Story about Olaghaire [Olghar] and the MacLeods in Skye collected from Coinneach MacThasgail [Kenneth MacAskill], Caolas Scalpey [Caolas Scalpaigh/Kyles Scalpay, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris].
Dates:
13 September 1873
Story about Pearsan Mòr, 24 September 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/111
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Story about Pearsan Mòr, chaplain and son to MacNeil of Barra, who lived at Ciolla [Chiall, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] that his wife, concerned that he might be interested in a woman who lived at Cliat [Cliaid], arranged for him to be ambushed by the other woman's servants on his return from hunting on Àird Ghrèin at Ciste nan Cli'eann. Pearsan Mòr killed ten of the twelve men although two of them lived until the morning. He fought them until he fell at Meallach where he was buried and a chapel...
Dates:
24 September 1872
Story about people coming to Cair Mualuig [Cathair Moluaig/St Moluag's Cathedral] to be healed, 2 September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/4
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Story collected from Duncan Carmichael, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about people coming to Cair Mualuig [Cathair Moluaig/St Moluag's Chair] to be cured of back pain. Duncan remembers people coming from long distances such as Glencoe [Gleann Comhann].
Dates:
2 September 1870
Story about praying to Cuirralain for healing, 29 August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/83
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Story about the burning of the wooden holy images or statues [of saints Columba, Moluag and Cyril/Curalan] by local young men possibly collected from Mary Carmichael, aged 71, Druimavuic, Glencreran [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. An old woman at Leitir-ru-Altain [Letterwalton, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] called out to Cuirralain [Curalan/St Cyril] and he appeared before her and said, 'Mas duil leat an duine sin cuimich a lamh.' The woman took the breid (kertch) from her head and bound the...
Dates:
29 August 1883
Story about Prince Charles Edward Stuart, 16 September 1890
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/18
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Story about Prince Charles Edward Stuart [Bonnie Prince Charlie], that he had a drink of milk from a black sheep on Brai Bhornish [Bràigh Bhornais, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] and that a party of red soldiers asked a man if they had seen the Prince, to which he replied that he had just parted company with him. The soldiers ordered him to take them to the Prince and that they would reward him so he took them up Drimore [Driomor] and all but one of the soldiers fell away, whereupon the man hit...
Dates:
16 September 1890
Story about pro- and anti-Jacobites in one MacLeod family and biographical details about John MacKinnon, March 1874
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/70
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Story about John Macinnon [John MacKinnon], Dirioscal [Dirascal, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris] who used to take food regularly to 'Ua Ulladall [Uamh Ulladail/Cave of Ulladale] to old MacLeod of Bearn[araigh]. The old man Don[ald] was for the Prince + his son Norman against the Prince' [Bonnie Prince Charlie]. MacKinnon is noted as having been sent as an orphan to Diriscal with Calum mac Dhonuil [Calum mac Dhòmhnaill] grandfather of Malcolm and Mr MacAulay's gamekeeper, with whom he lived for...
Dates:
March 1874
Story about Raghnall Sgamadail, 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/198
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Story about Raghnall Sgamadail 'Raol Scamadail' [Ronald [MacDonald]] from Moidart [Mùideart, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] in which a woman knocked on the door of his bothy and asked for him by name 'Raoil Mòr'. He asked where she was from and she said that she had travelled for sixty miles and so he invited her in to eat but she 'went off when she heard she had to bless -'.
Dates:
1883