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Fairies

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

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Song entitled 'Oran Sith' and accompanying story, 21 December 1885

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW87/57
Scope and Contents

Song entitled 'Oran Sith' collected from Donald MacDonald, crofter, Griminish, Benbecula [Griminis, Beinn na Faoghla] beginning 'A Mhor a Mhor till ri d' mhacan'. The accompanying tale tells how Moire met a fairy who seemed to know her baby. She talked to the fairy and then left her baby and went and hid to spy on them and this is the song she heard the father sing. Additions have been made to the text in both ink and pencil

Dates: 21 December 1885