Eels
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Story and note about eels, 24 June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/117
Scope and Contents
Story and note about eels collected from Ian Macaulay [John MacAulay], from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann]. The story tells how Ian's mother had lost her loinid [churn-staff] and it was discovered in a well, which was 'alive with eels...All wriggling in the most extrao[rdinary] manner + their tails tied togeth[er] in the twisted or plaited rope.' Notes that eels breed in the sea but he never saw any roe in those that he fished...
Dates:
24 June 1887
Story and notes about eels and dog-fish, 24 June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/118
Scope and Contents
Story and notes about eels and dog-fish collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann]. MacAulay states that morgan [dog-fish] stick to rocks like muc-creige [wrasse] and that an eel once caught a man at Lochdibaig [Loch Diabaig, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but he killed it and found it was full of goll-luachair [reeds] which are used by coopers for barrels. It was thought that the eels had eaten...
Dates:
24 June 1887