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Crodh mara (sea-cattle)

 Subject
Subject Source: Sss
Scope Note: Created For = CW,Use For = Sea cattle

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Story entitled 'Cro Mara', 5 May 1874

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/85
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Cro Mara' [Crodh Mara or Sea Cattle] collected from Dun[can] Maclellan (Ban) [Donnachadh Bàn or Duncan MacLellan], Càrnan, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist. In the story, a widow on a remote island sees some strange cattle in her herd. She goes to the big house and asks an old man for advice. The old man tells her to keep watch night and day for a week. She does this and sees cattle coming up from the sea to her corn. She pens in the cattle, the likes of which she has never seen...
Dates: 5 May 1874