Tales
Found in 1040 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Ursgeul - An Sagairt agus Bean a Chiabair', 28 February 1861
Story entitled 'Woman's choice', c1869
Story entitled 'Woman's choice' telling how a woman had her husband, son and brother imprisoned for 'a heinous crime'. She was given the option to release one of them but refused to name her choice. All of them were released in the end. The story contains two quotes, the concluding one being, 'Comhaltas gu ceud s cairdean gu fichead.'
Story fragments entitled '[Man] Shith' and vocabulary note, September 1909
Story fragments entitled '[Man] Shith' collected from Alex[ander] MacLennan, Wester Ailigan [Alligin Shuas, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] which states that a man came to cure and that the gamekeeper was to fire between the horns of the cow. Also, a vocabulary note which reads 'Feorlagan = Grass mouse'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story of a fallen uvula being healed with a charm, 8 September 1909
Story collected from John MacKenzie, smith, Aultbea [An t-Allt Beithe, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] at Càrn Dearg in which his fallen uvula is healed by a charm by William Campbell. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story of how Caisteal Stornaway was taken from the MacLeods by the MacKenzies, 20 January 1871
Story collected from Hector MacLeod, aged 85, at Caisteal Bhuirgh/Borve Castle, Lionacleit/Linaclate, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula telling how Caisteal Stornaway [Caisteal Steòrnabhaigh/Stornoway Castle, Eilean Leòdhais] was taken from the MacLeods by the MacKenzies. MacLeods people were locked in the castle and so MacKenzie took many people and tied them to a sgeir nearby so that when the tide rose MacLeod had to come out to rescue them and MacKenzie got into the castle.
Story of how St Columba cursed the flounder to have a crooked mouth, 1901
Story of how Calum Cille [St Columba] cursed the flounder to have a crooked mouth. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story of the origin of the ceard [traveller], 1901
Story of the origin of the ceard [traveller] that it was because a smith refused to make the nails to crucify Christ that he was the originator of tinkers 'all over the world' [the word ceard meaning both blacksmith and traveller]. The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story of the shipwreck of 'The Bermuda', 1883
Story relating to Dun Chalavy and MacNeil of Barra, 19 October 1871
Story relating to Fuday, 24 September 1872
Story relating to Fuday [Fuideigh] in which the illegitimate son of MacNeil of Barra, Mac an Amhuris, avenges the abduction of his daughter by Lochlannaich [Vikings] by going to Fuday and killing them all. The remains of the Lochlannaich periodically washed up on shore. Two boys found gold on Fuday, which, after the death of their father, who had persuaded them to keep the gold, they used to buy property in Cape Breton, Canada following their emigration.