Curses
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Blessings and curses, 1891
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/129
Scope and Contents
List of about 55 Gaelic curses probably from Uist.
Dates:
1891
Charm entitled 'Eolas Beum Sula' [actually 'Mallachd'], c1870
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW7/49
Scope and Contents
Charm entitled 'Eolas Beum Sula' [Exorcism of the Eye] but the text corresponds with 'Mallachd' or 'A Malediction' as found in Carmina Gadelica, vol. II. The charm begins 'Thainig di[th]ist a mach a dorust na cathrach neomh' and a note states that Colum Cille [St Columba] was able to heal men and animals.
Dates:
c1870
Curse beginning 'Fo mhollac nam ban fo thabhan nan con', June 1887
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/153
Scope and Contents
Curse beginning 'Fo mhollac[hd] nam ban fo thabhan nan con', S fo shuibh na ard-dorus droch ghui.' The text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
June 1887
Curse beginning 'Sgath na Nathrach ort a bheist', 1892
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/23
Scope and Contents
Curse beginning 'Sgath na Nathrach ort a bheist' and reportedly said by one woman to a pregnant woman, who died along with her child. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1892
Curse entitled 'Guidhe', c1890
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/39
Scope and Contents
Curse entitled 'Guidhe' [Ulc a Dhèan Mo Lochd or The Wicked Who Would Harm Me] beginning 'Cas an cois gach ursa, Bas am bun gach cailbhe.' The text is in ink and has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
c1890
Custom relating to 'La nam Bannag' and accompanying song, 17 January 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/42
Scope and Contents
Custom relating to La nam Bannag [Latha nam Bannag/Christmas Eve] collected from Duncan MacLellan, clachair [mason], Càrnan/Carnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist, describing how on that day they would go around the houses and 'If they got nothing they piled a cairn in the door or near it called Carnan na mollac + then sing out - Mallac[hd] Dhia s na Callaig agaibh.' MacLellan describes how when the people came round they went around the fire three times singing 'Gum bean[nachd] Dia n tai a th ann...
Dates:
17 January 1874
Fragment of a story entitled 'Luideag na h Aibhine', 1901
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW110/77
Scope and Contents
Fragment of a story entitled 'Luideag na h Aibhine' in which a man ties a woman up in front of his house but she escapes and curses him. The story probably originated in Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] although it is likely to have been collected on the Isle of Barra/Barraigh. Text has been scored through.
Dates:
1901
List of maledictions and accompanying note, 1894
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/129
Scope and Contents
List of maledictions including 'Geolaich ort', 'Ballachd ort' and 'Clisgeadh ort' and accompanying note which reads 'The teaching of the 12 in bapt[ising] in run[nin]g streams = 7 siona from 7 streams.' The text has been scored through in ink as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1894
Note about a curse on Loch Treig, 1 October 1890
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/31
Scope and Contents
Note collected from Isabella MacIntosh née Kennedy, aged 69, Inbhir Ruaidh/Inverroy, Siorramachd Inbhir Nis/Inverness-shire that a witch put a curse on Loch Treig and [so there are no animals there]. Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1 October 1890
Note about 'evil' and 'cain' [càin] being put on cattle, 29 August 1883
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/98
Scope and Contents
Note possibly collected from Donald MacColl, foxhunter, Glencreran, Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire, about 'evil' and 'cain' [càin] being put on twenty cows with calves.
Dates:
29 August 1883