Punishment
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:
Story about how MacNeil died in Gearrynamoine, 19 October 1871
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/168
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Story collected from Rev Alexander Campbell, priest, Bornais/Bornish, Uibhist a deas/South Uist, telling how MacDonald of Boisdale was always trying to catch MacNeil of Barra. One day he and his men lay hidden under heather in the bottom of a boat of women. MacNeil fell for the trap and Boisdale caught him. When they landed at Kilbride [Cille Bhrìghde] MacNeil escaped and so Boisdale and his men pursued him. While they were passing through Gearrynamoine [Geàrraidh na Mònadh/Garrynamonie] 'a...
Dates:
19 October 1871
Story about 'Iain Og mac Mhic ic Neil', 1867
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/61
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Story collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay about 'Iain Og mac Mhic ic Neil' [Iain Òg mac Mhic ic Neill] telling how when a shipwreck occurred off Vaslan [Vaslain, Barraigh/Isle of Barra] he sent people to get a doradh [dorgh or handline] to save the people who had been on board. Stones were put on the end of the lines and it was these stones which killed the people when thrown to them. The survivors told the king that Iain Òg had killed them and the king...
Dates:
1867
Story about Rev John MacAulay and the treatment of 'malefactors', September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/37
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Story about Rev John MacAulay, minister, Lios Mòr/Lismore, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, that he was disliked by his parishioners 'duine borb borb' to the extent that on his final Sunday during the service he said that he would not leave if anyone showed him support but no one spoke. He put up the brangas [pillory] by the church where malefactors [criminals] would be chained for a night and a day as punishment. It also notes that Druim na Bithe was where the malefactors would be collected for...
Dates:
September 1870
Story about Sir Donald Campbell of Airds shooting a servant, 2 September 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW106/15
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Story about Sir Donald Campbell of Airds shooting a servant. While he was living at E[ilean] an Stalcair [Stalker Isle or Castle Stalker, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire] Campbell had sent a servant to [Inver-] in a hurry but the servant returned so quickly that Campbell thought he had not gone at all and on seeing him crossing the stream shot him.
Dates:
2 September 1870
Story about the worship of marked stones by followers of Una Nin Ri Lochlan on Unival, c1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/74
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Story about the worship of marked stones by followers of Una Nin Ri Lochlan [Una Nighean Rìgh Lochlann] on Unival [Uineabhal, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist]. It notes that any of Una's men who did not worship the images or were guilty of crime were made to move the stones as were any who 'Kept a fire alive at Beatlain [Bealltainn]'. The note also mentions barps at Langass and Tai Cloiche Mharadh [Langais and Taigh Cloiche, Marrogh]. Carmichael also adds a quote relating to the MacAulay family...
Dates:
c1872
Story entitled 'Aird bhea’aich', 15 August 1883
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/8
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Story entitled 'Aird bhea’aich' collected from Donald MacGregor, Baile Garbh/Bailegarve, Lios Mòr/Lismore, about a man called Donald Dubh and his father, in which the 'troublesome' Donald challenges his father to hang someone and if he does not hang them he is to give 'the power of pit and gallows' to Donald. They encounter three men carrying a caber each from the forest and Donald insists that his father hangs one of them. His father tricks him by technically hanging one of the man but not...
Dates:
15 August 1883
Story entitled 'Cailleach Bheag an fhasaich', 12 February 1895
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/87
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Story written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Cailleach Bheag an fhasaich' [Little Carlin of the Wild]. There was a poor soul living in Benbecula called Iagan-lom, because he had never managed to grow a beard. He wanted to marry someone like himself who was neither too big nor too small so he decided to go away to find her so that if she rejected him no one would know. So he set out whereupon a crow told him to go to Na Hearadh/Isle of Harris as that's where...
Dates:
12 February 1895
Story entitled 'Mac Righ Eirinn', 28 October 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/124
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Story entitled 'Mac Righ Eirinn' [Mac Rìgh Èirinn or the Son of the King of Ireland] collected from Lach[lan] Donullach [Lachlan MacDonald], Gramasdale [Gramasdal/Gramsdale, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula]. In the story Rìgh Èirinn has remarried and his new wife is evil, so Mac Rìgh Èirinn runs away to his maternal grandfather's and tells him all about it. His grandfather gives him a filly and tells him that if he whispers 'Crath crath a lothag' to a filly, it will provide gold and if he says it...
Dates:
28 October 1870
Story entitled 'Slinneanac', September 1872
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/170
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Story entitled 'Slinneanac' [scapulimancy] in which Mac a Chreachain, butler, was asked to tell the future by MacNeil of Barra and reluctantly agreed, warning Ruari Breac [Roderick MacNeil] that Ciosmal [Caisteal Chiosmuil/Kisimul Castle] would end up in ruins. The story continues to tell more about MacNeil of Barra, his marriage to the daughter of MacLean of Duart and subsequent absence from the island. During his absence a signal came to the castle that a nobleman was there but no one went...
Dates:
September 1872
Two stories relating to the hangings in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and accompanying etymological note, 5 August 1870
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/106
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Two stories relating to the hangings in Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist and accompanying etymological note probably collected from an unnamed 'Orinsay woman' [Orasaigh/Oronsay] who Carmichael had met. The woman told him that that the name of 'La-le-an-tsamhrai' [Latha leth an t-samhraidh] had been changed to 'Laiilleain' [Latha 'Illeathain] because a MacLean had been hanged on that day. The story tells how a MacLean man had been entrusted with a poor woman's only cow for grazing but when her sons...
Dates:
5 August 1870