Superstition
Found in 41 Collections and/or Records:
Proverb beginning 'La fheil Moire na Feill Pead[air]' and accompanying note, c1892
Proverb which reads 'La fheil[l] Moire na Feill Pead[air] La S mu thig no thainig' and accompanying note which reads '25 March Annunciation Day. When it falls on Good Friday calamitous for Europe - war pestilence &c'.
Story about a woman's trip to a wise woman for a snaile, 5 Aug 1870
Story about Alastair mac Colla and the 'laogh alla', 1884
Story about Alastair mac Colla [Alexander MacDonald] and the 'laogh alla' [wild calf] that when he came to 'Taigh an Tuirn' [possibly Taigh an Trithinn], he tried to put it on fire but he was unable to do so because the laogh alla [wild calf] was there. The laogh alla 'brought a charm to the place he visited'. Notes that 'alla' means wanderer roaming going wild and uncontrolled.
Story about Calum Gobha and the storm, September 1872
Story about Clach na Cabaig and a healing stone, September 1870
Story about murders, a superstition and accompanying place-names, September 1870
Story about tinkers and seal hunting on Hasgeir [Heisker], c1875
Story about tinkers and seal hunting on Hasgeir [Theisgeir/Heisker/Monach Isles] describing how once tinkers came from Leothas [Eilean Leodhais/Isle of Lewis] and stayed on Heisker for the summer. As long as they were there there were no seals but as soon as they went the seals returned.
Story entitled 'A Skye Phrophecy' (sic), c1892
Story entitled 'A Skye Phrophecy' (sic) [A Skye Prophecy] which reads 'Cha tig mac an deigh an athair gus an till/tig Mac thasgail a rist ann (to Ebost where Macasgail was murdered by Mac ic Thormaid of Gesto.' [Geusdo, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]