Tales
Found in 1040 Collections and/or Records:
Story about ravens killing each other, 1901
Story about ravens killing each other in which Calum MacPhie, Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] and his father on the way to the peats saw two ravens fighting in the air and then one fell down dead at their feet. 'The smell from it was awful'. Text has been scored through.
Story about removing a 'culm' [mote] using a charm, August 1909
Story about removing a 'culm' [mote] using a charm collected from [John] Murray, farm grieve, Arcan, Urrad [Arcan, Urraidh/Urray, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] in which a culm of peat is dislodged from his eye by a woman from Edderton [Eadardan, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] using a basin of water reciting a rhyme. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story about Rev John MacAulay, c1871
Story about Rev John MacAulay and the treatment of 'malefactors', September 1870
Story about Ruai Mhor, daughter of Rìgh Lochlann, and duns on the Isle of Barra, 24 September 1872
Story about Ruary an Ruma and tea-drinking, 1867
Story about Ruary an Ruma [Roderick MacNeil, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] telling how he had only once before had a cup of tea. Carmichael notes this as 'Strange' and on asking him how he liked the tea he had been served by the school-servant he replied 'Manamsa Dhia gu bheil gle mhath. Ach bu cho mhath liom an siucar eir uisge teth ris a so! Nach bu mhath luidh mhic Righ B[h]reitean seach an seo?'.
Story about sea-cattle and accompanying custom, 20 January 1871
Story telling how a woman in Crocantorran [Cnoc an Torrain/Knockintorran, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] who had a little child saw cattle eating seaweed on a snowy day. She thought they were eating it because of the snow and so she followed them and got a fright when she saw them go into the sea to the extent that she was ill for a month. It was said that if a handful of earth is thrown on sea cattle they 'cant forsake the land'.
Story about seal hunting on Heisker including a weather incantation, 1869
Story in which Mac Uistean was too old to go seal hunting on Haisgeir [Theisgeir/Heisker] and in the stormy weather walked around the house repeating 'Slainri gun fheum an taobh taigh Mhic Uist[ean] an nochd Slanri & noc'. Also, a band of tinkers accustomed to seal-hunting had not had success for several seasons but after a ball on St Michael's Night they left and got 80 seals that night.
Story about seals killed in Skye, June 1887
Story about seals killed in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye which reads 'Seal killed at Portree [Port Rìgh] blue like Hooded seal. Anoth[er] Skye man had a spliucan + he saw the seal had been Killed on an Afri[can] river.' Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story about seeing the remains of 'Bogha an Teampuill', November 1873
Story collected from Keith Macdonald, Scarista [Sgarasta, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris], that he saw 'most distinctly' the walls of Bogha an Teampuill, which are submerged opposite Scarista beag [Sgarasta Bheag] and that 'the tangles were growing to a great extent over it'. 'He saw it to his great astonishment' as his hooks had got entangled with the long seaweed and he noticed lime shells on the seaweed which came up with his hooks.