Fairies
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Song entitled 'Am bun a chrui', 29 August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/81
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Am bun a' chrui' beginning 'Am bun a chrui cha chaid[il] mi', probably collected from Mary Carmichael, aged 71, Druimavuic, Glencreran [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. This song is about a maiden wooed by a fairy lover.
Dates:
29 August 1883
Story about a wife stolen by the fairies, 29 August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/82
Scope and Contents
Story about a wife stolen by the fairies probably collected from Mary Carmichael, aged 71, Druimavuic, Glencreran [Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. In the story, the man, from Blar nan Laogh, Ach-nan-Con, Appin [Bàr nan Laogh, Achnacone, An Apainn, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] drags his wife by the ankle through a fire and discovers, as he suspected, that the fairies had replaced her with the trunk of an oak tree 'black stoc daraich'. The story states that the fairies are keen to take women for...
Dates:
29 August 1883