Charms
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Story entitled 'Droch Shuil' about the evil eye, 17 September 1909
Story entitled 'Droch Shuil' collected from William Macconnich [William MacKenzie], mason, An Anaid, Loch Tairbheartan [Annat, Loch Torridon] in which a mare collapses after a visitor from Corry buying oat seed from MacKenzie's father leaves. MacKenzie is sent after the man who returns and going around the mare reciting a charm brings it back to health and it gets up and keeps ploughing. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.