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Secrets

 Subject

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

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'Turas', c1870

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/6
Scope and Contents

Story entitled 'Turas' about a man who sends his three sons on a journey with a bag, which they are not allowed to look into until they arrive at their destination. The eldest one decides he will look into it and in doing so falls. The other two brothers mock him and keep on going. On the eldest's return he tells his father who tells him he will need to keep his secret. The story has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: c1870
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael

Vocabulary note for 'siadhan' ['testicle'] and 'sgeul-ruin' ['secret'], c1872

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/79
Scope and Contents

Vocabulary note for 'siadhan' ['testicle'] and 'sgeul-ruin' ['secret'].

Dates: c1872
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook of Alexander Carmichael