Tales
Found in 1040 Collections and/or Records:
Story about the Baron of Bachuil, the Macleans of Duart and and the body of Campbell of Airds/Stewart of Appin, September 1870
Story about the Battle of Sheriffmuir, c1866
Story about the Battle of Sheriffmuir probably collected from Alexander MacKenzie, Uisgeabhagh/Uiskevagh, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula, telling how at the battle, horses came amongst the Gaels and scattered them. Fear Leitir-iù [a MacKenzie] and Iain MacConnich [John MacKenzie], the informant's maternal grandfather, were up against five troops and so Fear Leitir-iù told John to go back to back with him and in that way they managed to kill the five soldiers with their swords.
Story about the 'bean chaol chota uaine' [thin [fairy] woman in the green coat], September 1872
Story about the Bible being read after a fairy sighting, September 1909
Story about the Bible being read after a fairy sighting at Eas Ailigan [Eas Alligin, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story about the bird 'bunabhuachille' (great northern diver), 1877
Story about the the bird 'bunabhuachille' [buna-bhuachaille] (great northern diver) on Loch Uiseadan, Loch Leatha and Loch Bheinneasal [An Sgarp/Scarp, Na Hearadh/Harris] including a statement that Donald MacLean of Scarp who herded there while a boy and used to chase them 'among stones and water'.
Story about the book of the Bishops of Kilchiaran, September 1870
Story about the book of the Bishops of Kilchiaran, collected from John Black, aged eighty-six, Killean, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire. Black states that he saw the book of the bishops of Kilchiaran [Kilcheran], which was written in Latin on one page and English on the other, and that it said that the Castle of Achnanduin [Achadun] was built in 1209. The place Lithe-sgeir [Liath Sgeir] is mentioned at the end of the story but with no indication of why.
Story about the builder of Castle Chalavay, 25 March 1871
Story, probably collected from Patrick Smith, Ceann a Deas Loch Baghasdail/South Boisdale, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, about the builder of Castle Chalavay [Castle Calvay, Calbhaigh] telling how he was not Iain Iomairstach but an Iain from somewhere else 'who used to creach all vessels pas[sin]g & imprison people in the toll dugh'. He was said to have been killed by a woman who threw a stone at him from above.
Story about the building of a lighthouse on Eilean O-bharsa [Orsay] and vocabulary note, June 1887
Story about the building of a lighthouse on Eilean O-bharsa [Orasaigh/Orsay, Ìle/Islay] that it was built over [Hugh] Mackay's tomb by the Commissioners of Lighthouses [Northern Lighthouse Board] and that whole bodies were wheeled down to Geo-cho'air [Geòdh Chobhair]. The vocabulary note states that 'Seargach' 'Sea foam' or 'tough foam' and 'Co'ar' [cobhar] is 'fresh water foam'.