Wound healing

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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.

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Note that Alexander Cameron in Drum an Dorsair, Killmorag [Druim an Dorsair/Drumindorsair, Cill Mhòraig/Kilmorack, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] has a charm for motes. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Note to ask Widow Sandy MacKay [Hectorina MacKay née Beaton], Tighnafiline [Tigh na Faoilinn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] for a man in Gairloch [Geàrrloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] with a 'casga fala' [charm for stopping bleeding]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Reference note for a charm which reads 'No II MS [manuscript] No 14 a charm for stopping of the effusion of blood.'

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Reference to information about stopping bleeding which reads 'Stop bleeding Martin [Martin] Western Isles p368'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Story about a charm for healing collected from Kate MacPhail née Ross, from Bishop Kinkell [Ceann a' Choille, Siorramachd Ros agus Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. Kate's brother had a barley awn in his eye and went to Donald MacKinnon in Arcan, Urray who put an awn in his mouth and in doing so healed her brother. There is an address for a [-] Fraser, esquire in Strathpeffer attached to the story. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Story about a charm for healing collected from Alexander Campbell, Cannuin [Conon, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. His wife had a mote in her eye and he was told to visit Ceite Vic Rath Bean Mhic Connich [Kate MacRae] [Arcan, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] who provided him with 'eòlas' [a charm]. At the same time as he was told the eòlas she was healed. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

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Story about removing a 'culm' [mote] using a charm collected from [John] Murray, farm grieve, Arcan, Urrad [Arcan, Urraidh/Urray, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] in which a culm of peat is dislodged from his eye by a woman from Edderton [Eadardan, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] using a basin of water reciting a rhyme. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Scope and Contents Story about the use of a charm to remove a crumb from an eye collected from [John] Maclennan, crofter, in which his brother gets a biscuit crumb in his eye following a practical joke but the crumb is stuck there for two days. They are sent to an old woman at [Fairburn Tower, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire] who does not touch the brother but places three pebbles in water and repeats a charm at which point a crumb falls into her hand and the brother no longer feels pain as the crumb in...

Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Sgeul Chois O Cèin' [The Healing of Keyn's Foot] collected from Calum MacRath [Malcolm MacRae], shepherd, Abhuinn Suidhe [Abhainn Suidhe, Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris]. Two notes written transversely on folio 2r, the first in the same ink states where and when the story was told and by whom, while the second is written in blue ink and notes MacRae's death in 1866. Two notes on folio 10r state 'A man at Boisdale [Baghasdal, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] is said to have this tale'...