Saints
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 23 Collections and/or Records:
Story about three women being turned to stone, August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/145
Scope and Contents
Story about three women who are turned to stone by Cuiralainn's [Curalan/St Cyril] servant, who was chasing them for stealing from Cuiralainn. Curalan is said to have given the servant his own wand, with which the servant struck each woman.
Dates:
August 1883
Story and notes about burials and archaeological finds on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 8 July 1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/12
Scope and Contents
Story and notes about burials and archaeological finds on Tarasaigh/Taransay telling how a large, thick skull with a piece cut out of the back of it as if by a sword was seen at Teamp[ull] Charrain or Tharrain [Teampull Tharain/St Tarran's Chapel]. He describes the skull and a large skeleton found near it. He records how men and women were buried separately, the men at Teampull Tharrain and the women at Teamp[ull] Che [Teampull Chè] although the two places are fifty yards apart. The story...
Dates:
8 July 1870
Two versions of the charm beginning 'I will pull thee pregnant torranan' or 'I will pull thee torranan', February 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/57
Scope and Contents
Two versions of the charm beginning 'I will pull thee pregnant torranan' or 'I will pull thee torranan' [Eòlas an Torranain or Charm of the Figwort]. Both versions have some words amended while the first five lines of the first version has been scored through in pencil as if deleted rather than transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
February 1874