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Fairies

 Subject

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

Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW116
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, inscribed on the inside cover with 'Alexander A Carmichael Inland Revenue Lochmaddy N[orth] Uist 15/7 1870 Note Book No 8'. The majority of this notebook contains material collected on Tarasaigh/Taransay from the MacDonalds at Paible House, Mor or Marion MacQueen and Donald MacKinnon including notes on the island's archaeology, local history and geographical changes, with stories of how coastal erosion revealed burial sites and renditions of...
Dates: 15 July 1870 to 19 October 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael, 1874, 1877 and 1891

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108
Scope and Contents Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael containing songs, poems, tales, names, vocabulary and expressions collected in the Outer Hebrides [Na h-Eileanan an Iar]. The first part of the volume contains transcriptions taken as Carmichael listened to informants in 1877 while the second part appears to be copies of previous transcriptions of material collected by Carmichael and Rev Malcolm MacPhail in 1874 and written into the notebook in 1891. Amongst the material is a version of the lament...
Dates: 1874, 1877 and 1891
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Fragment of a song and accompanying story, 12 September 1890

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/6
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song which reads 'A Mhor bheag a dir[eadh] ghlean[n], Sa teurna[adh] bhean[n]' and accompanying story which tells how two girls heard this lullaby coming from Sithean Chroise Beaga [Sìthean Chroise Beaga or Cnocan na Croise Beaga, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] while feeding cattle. The text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 12 September 1890
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Fragment of a story about 'Du-sith beag MacIlle-She'anaich', August 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/42
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a story which reads 'Du-sith beag MacIlle-She'anaich put egg on head of his boy & broke it then kill[ed] the creat[ure] before all but three.'

Dates: August 1886
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about biers, 27 September 1883

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/148
Scope and Contents

Note about biers and that they are broken because 'tanasg nan corp & sithich' [ghosts and fairies] used to carry them away, collected from Donald MacColl, brocair (fox hunter), [Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire].

Dates: 27 September 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra and accompanying vocabulary, August 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/20
Scope and Contents Burial customs on Barraigh/Isle of Barra, probably collected from Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra, telling how a 'bonnach tollt' was put in the coffin and a coin is put under the coffin in the grave. 'The toll saved the bonnach from the corra-chagailt...Even the coin in the fasnadh had to be treated in a peculiar way to save it from the sithich' [fairies].' The vocabulary notes include 'Tàsg = the bird that foretells death tri sgramhann granda - less than a...
Dates: August 1903
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

Note about Cladh Pheadair, 27 October 1873

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW115/18
Scope and Contents

Note about Cladh Pheadair, [Nis/Ness, Eilean Leòdhais/Isle of Lewis] that Aonas mac Bhr'eamh [Aonghas mac ' Bhritheimh or Angus Morrison, son of the Brieve] was the third man to be buried there and that near it is Croc an Annairt [Cnoc an Anairt] where fairy [linens] were seen.

Dates: 27 October 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about 'Cu-sìth', 1894

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/179
Scope and Contents

Note about 'Cu-sìth' that it 'came from the sea shore with a long chain attached' and was originally 'Boirionn (na goibhre)'.

Dates: 1894
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note about Tunga and native Barra people, 24 September 1972

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/97
Scope and Contents

Note about Tunga stating that it was built of masonry and that the MacNeils killed 'all the natives' [of Barraigh/Isle of Barra]. The last of these people was a man called Gillios who 'had the nature of the sitheachs & used to run into the holes like rabbits'.

Dates: 24 September 1972
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Note entitled 'Nine, Naodh', 14 January 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/71
Scope and Contents

Note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Nine, Naodh' describing how the fairies are said to be 'nine nines of years sucking the breast' and the same number of years each at boyhood, young hood, middle manhood, old manhood and at 'the bre[a]st of death "ri uchd bais"'.

Dates: 14 January 1895
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael