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Weather

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

Vocabulary note entitled 'Lightening', 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/75
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note written down by John Ewen MacRury entitled 'Lightening' giving the Gaelic for different types of lightning for example 'Forked Lightening Dealanach - beithreach.' Text has been scored through in pencil as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1895

Vocabulary note for Lùthar and sketch, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW114/73
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note for Lùthar and sketch probably collected from Roderick MacNeil, aged 88, crofter, Miùghlaigh/Mingulay, which reads 'A Luthar makes a dread[ful] sound pre[vious] to a West wind. It indic[ates] a gale of West wind.' The sketch shows the shape of the Lùthar.

Dates: 1867

Vocabulary note which reads 'Calladair = Weather prophet', June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/92
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note probably collected on Ìle/Islay which reads 'Calladair = Weather prophet'.

Dates: June 1887