New Year
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Collection of Victorian printed ephemera
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1592
Identifier: Coll-1982
Content Description
Collection of 32 Victorian printed ephemera, in colour: greeting cards, birthday cards, New Year and Christmas cards, religious cards with short prayers, a Valentine card, and two advertisements for Heinz and Ivelcon. Some cards are annotated in the back by the people who sent or received them.
Dates:
19th - early 20th century
Custom regarding dust and ashes at New Year, 1884
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW120/264
Scope and Contents
Custom regarding dust and ashes at New Year, that they should not be put out but be kept behind the door to [keep out the fairies] (text is unclear).
Dates:
1884
Song entitled 'Duan Callaig' [Song of Hogmanay], 1895
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/66
Scope and Contents
Song written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Duan Callaig' [Song of Hogmanay] beginning 'A noch an oidhche mu dheireadh, na bhliadhna 's bidhibh fialaidh rium sa n fhardraich dol a ghabhail mo Dhuan Callaig'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
1895