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Longevity

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

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Note entitled 'Nine, Naodh', 14 January 1895

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW1/71
Scope and Contents

Note written down by John Ewen MacRury, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula entitled 'Nine, Naodh' describing how the fairies are said to be 'nine nines of years sucking the breast' and the same number of years each at boyhood, young hood, middle manhood, old manhood and at 'the bre[a]st of death "ri uchd bais"'.

Dates: 14 January 1895