Votive offerings
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Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Note about wells and a rock connected with St Cyril, 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/256
Scope and Contents
Note about wells and a rock connected with St Cyril [Curalan], listing the wells as Tobar nan Sùl, Tobar na Glùn, Tobar Churalainn and Tobar nan Cìoch and the rock as Clach an Droma [Tobar an Sùl, Tobar a' Ghlùin, Tobar Churalain, all Earra Ghàidheal/Argyllshire]. People would leave a halfpenny or a shell at Tobar Churalainn.
Dates:
1884
Story entitled 'An Gruagach'
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/157
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'An Gruagach' about the appearance of a gruagach [brownie] in Iain Donn's father's house at night. The story notes that the gruagach visited Fiarey [Fiaraidh] where there is a leac gruagach [a large stone with a hollow] onto which milk is spilt, so that the gruagach will look after the cattle through the night, so that they do not get out.
Dates:
1870 to 1872