Water-horses
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW,Use For = Each uisge
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'Airidh Neill' about a water-horse at Airidh Neill and Neill's dogs, 1874 and 1891
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/151
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Story entitled 'Airidh Neill' about a water-horse which arrives at Airidh Neill nam Beann [Àirigh Nèill] nam Beann disguised as a woman. The dog senses it is a water-horse and begins to snarl. The water-horse asks Niall to tie up his dogs but Niall refuses. He throws the water-horse some meat, which it eats in one go. Eventually the dog is let out and is unharmed but when the bitch is let out it kills the water-horse and the water-horse turns into a big white mare on the shore. Niall tied...
Dates:
1874 and 1891
Story entitled 'An t Each Uisge', 28 February 1861
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/24
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Story entitled 'An t Each Uisge' ['The Water-Horse'] collected from Manus Mac Neacail [Magnus Nicolson], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story tells how a woman in Uisgegeir or Aoidhsgeir [possibly Theisgeir/Heisker] had a prophesy in which a calf born in Uibhist/Uist would save the island from a water-horse. Two MacKenzies would be sitting on a hill and would see two crows, one of which would drop a bone, which would hit one of them on the head and they would...
Dates:
28 February 1861
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a water-horse and the female cattle-herder, 1874 and 1891
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/150
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Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a girl who is herding cattle by a loch when a handsome young man appears, greets her and goes to sleep on her coat. She notices that there is seaweed and sediment from the loch in his hair and realises he is a water-horse. She cuts her coat away from the piece under his head and escapes. When the water-horse awakes he shakes the piece of coat under his head saying, 'Ma's duine tha n so 's eutrom e!' ['If anyone's here they're very light!']. He went...
Dates:
1874 and 1891
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a water-horse in Carishader, Lewis, 6 May 1874 and 1891
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/147
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Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' collected from Iain Macleod, Bhaltos [Valtos, Eilean Leòdhais /Isle of Lewis]. The story concerns a family from Carasiatar [Cairisiadar/Carishader] who were bothered by a young water-horse, every time the husband was away from home. A wise man in the village told the husband to put on his wife's clothes and when the water-horse came to the house and asked who was in, the husband was to reply ' 'S mi-fein 's mi fein' ['Myself and myself']. This all happened...
Dates:
6 May 1874 and 1891
Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a water-horse in Crageo, Lewis, 1874 and 1891
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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/148
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Story entitled 'An t-Each Uisge' about a water-horse in Crageo [Crà-geò [Loch Cràgach], Eilean Leòdhais /Isle of Lewis] who regularly visits three houses when the husband is away. Once the husband, a cattleman, put on his wife's clothes and started spinning thread. The water-horse came to the door, saw him and went away never to return confused that the woman of the house should be spinning but also have a beard, 'An cuigeal siud/ud a th'aigesan, Us feusag air a ghuibean aige.'
Dates:
1874 and 1891