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Charms

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

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Charm entitled 'Casga Fala' and accompanying story, 13 September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/114
Scope and Contents Charm entitled 'Casga Fala', from Ruaraidh Matheson [Roderick Matheson], gamekeeper, Ach nan Ceann, Ceannlochew at Lochmarithe [Ath Nan Ceann/Anancaun, Ceann Loch Iù/Kinlochewe, Loch Maruibhe/Loch Maree, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] beginning 'Rugadh C[riosda] ann am Beth[lehem]' and accompanying story in which Matheson states that you put your hand on the hand of the person who is bleeding and recite the charm. Once, when in Gairloch, he stopped someone bleeding in this way. Text has...
Dates: 13 September 1909

Note that Ruarai[dh] Matheson has the charm 'Eòlas an Tarbhas', September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/93
Scope and Contents

Note that Ruarai[dh] Matheson, Ath nan Ceann, Ceannlochewe [Àth nan ceann/Anancaun, Ceann Loch Iù/Kinlochewe, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] has the charm 'Eòlas an Tarbhas' [charm for surfeit]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909