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Charms

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

Found in 162 Collections and/or Records:

List of potential informants of charms, 23 September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/153
Scope and Contents List of potential informants of charms including Ruary Maconlish, Duncan Murchison's wife, Isabella Murchison, who are all in Druimbui [An Druim Buidhe/Drumbuie] and have the charm 'Casga Fala'; Mary MacLennan, Earbarsaig [Earbasaig/Erbusaig]; Peggie Finlayson, Druimbui [An Druim Buidhe/Drumbuie]; and Iain Macrath, Strome Ferry [Port and t-Sròim/Stromeferry]. Written at Diurnis [Duirnnis/Duirinish] Lochals[h] [Lochaillse, all places Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. Text has been scored...
Dates: 23 September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about 'an t-eòlas balbh', August 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/77
Scope and Contents

Note about 'an t-eòlas balbh' [the dumb charm] that it takes the sting out of a burn. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: August 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about 'balgan-bèiste', September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/92
Scope and Contents

Note about 'balgan-bèiste' and that it is a globe with an insect inside it, which when a cow swallows an insect is put in water and the water then sprinkled on the cow. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about the charm 'Eolas Droch Shuil', August 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/17
Scope and Contents

Note about the charm 'Eolas Droch Shuil' [Evil Eye] that any water left should be thrown behind the fire 'Do thinneas an na [clachan]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: August 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about two people who know casga fala [charms for stopping bleeding], July 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/21
Scope and Contents

Note about two people who know casga fala [charms for stopping bleeding] the people being Anni[e] MacKenzie, Culburnie [Cùil Bhraonaidh/Kilbirnie, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] and Alexander MacKenzie, Aigas [Àigeas, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: July 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note of two charm titles, c1893

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/41
Scope and Contents

Note of two charm titles namely 'Obi Ri Shuil' and 'Frith'.

Dates: c1893
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note on a charm entitled 'An Gulman', 11 September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/103
Scope and Contents

Note on a charm entitled 'An Gulman' [cataract] probably collected from Catherine MacLean, crofter, Naast, Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty [Nàst, Geàrr Loch, Ros is Cromba], which notes that there must be a sixpence or a shilling in the bottom of the basin [of water] used in the charm. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 11 September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note on Achlasan C[haluim]-Chille, 28 October 1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/101
Scope and Contents Note on Achlasan C[haluim]-Chille [St John's Wort/St Columba's Plant] probably collected from Archibald Currie, aged forty-six, shoemaker, Iocar [Ìochdar], Uibhist a Deas/South Uist describing how it is [collected] 'gun sire[adh] gun iar[raidh]' and 'is scraped ag[ainst] its bark and a crosgag (a ring) is made and placed in the bottom of the milk [boyne].' The note also describes the 'cneapag' which is made before the crosgag is made. Calum Cille [St Columba] is described as 'the best herd...
Dates: 28 October 1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note on the charm 'Eola[s] Sgocha Feith[e]', September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/130
Scope and Contents

Note on the charm 'Eola[s] Sgocha Feith[e]'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note relating to knots made on a string for a charm, c1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/51
Scope and Contents

Note relating to knots made on a string for a charm which reads 'Place three knots on the string when putting the eolas in the snathaile'.

Dates: c1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Transcription notebook of Alexander Carmichael

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