Skip to main content

Charms

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Story entitled 'Droch Shuil' about the evil eye, 17 September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/131
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 17 September 1909