Carding
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW,Use For = Spinning
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Song entitled 'Oran Si' and accompanying story, 29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/67
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Oran Si' [Seathan] collected from Mairi Fheargustan nin Coruna [Mary Ferguson], Carnish [Cairinis/Carinish, Uibhist a Tuath/North Uist] beginning 'Hura hurabhi o, B anns Seathan cul tota'. The song is composed of fifty lines and contains a number of annotations and amendments. The accompanying story tells how an old man in Baleshare [Baile Shear/Baleshare] called Iain mac Aonais MacAulay [John MacAulay] heard the song on a warm day while pulling heather at a known haunted...
Dates:
29 May 1869 and 15 June 1869
Song entitled 'Seathan' with accompanying note and vocabulary note, 22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW150/23
Scope and Contents
Song entitled 'Seathan' collected from Mairi Dhonullach and Mairi [bean], Miulay [Miùghlaigh/Mingulay] beginning 'Na huru o na hi horo, Na hi horo hogh o ho ho-o, Nach do leig iad sin us talamh lein'. The song is composed of twenty-three lines and has been scored through in ink with the following note written transversely over it 'B[ook] 2 P[age] [-] Transcribed June 16 1869 A[lexander] A[rchibald] C[armichael]'. The note describes how the song was sung, 'The singer of the tuiream sings the...
Dates:
22 May 1869 and 16 June 1869
Story about fairies looking for work, March 1874
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW111/82
Scope and Contents
Story in which six fairies approach a man looking for work spinning or carding wool as they had angered their master at Croc nan claigeann, Boradh, Bearnaray [Cnoc nan Claigeann, Borgh/Borve, Bearnaraidh/Berneray]
Dates:
March 1874