Isle of Skye Inverness-shire Scotland
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 152 Collections and/or Records:
Story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean', 1860 to 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/2
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'An Tuanach agus a sheachnar Ghillean' [similar to folktales of 'The Extraordinary Companion'] collected from Ruaridh Camshron [Roderick Cameron], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] on 14 November 1860. The story tells of how a farmer went out hunting and on growing weary lay down to sleep. On waking up he found the heather growing all around him and his dogs dead. When he arrived home, his son who was a baby when he left had grown up and all his servants...
Dates:
1860 to 1861
Story entitled 'Chaora Bhirroch Ghlas', 7 February 1860
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/20
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Chaora Bhirroch Ghlas' ['Sharp Grey Sheep'] collected from Donnacha Mac Dhirmaid [Duncan MacDiarmaid], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye], who learned it from Christiana Mac Queen [Christina MacQueen], Fearan an leatha [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story is told in a confusing manner as the different episodes of the story have been over-compressed. The story tells of two girls. One girl is born to a sheep, which...
Dates:
7 February 1860
Story entitled 'Cigean, Cuaigean as Boc geal an reubainn', 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/16
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Cigean, Cuaigean as Boc geal an reubainn' probably collected in An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye, in which the three characters have some corn and Cigean asks who will grow it, to which Cuaigean replies 'Nach tog thu fhèin?' ['Won't you grow it yourself?'] to which Boc Geal an Reubainn suggests they all frow it together. Next Cigean asks who will winnow it and the same responses come. The story continues through the process of preparing the corn up until the point at...
Dates:
1861
Story entitled 'Cigean, Cuaigean, us Boc Geal an Reubain' and accompanying note, 1861 and c1866
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/2
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Cigean, Cuaigean, us Boc Geal an Reubain' collected from Donnchadh MacDhiarmaid [Duncan MacDiarmaid] and Coinneach MacAscaill [Kenneth MacAskill] both Fearann-an-letha [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] on 30 January 1861, in which the three characters have some corn and Cigean asks who will grow it, to which Cuaigean replies 'Nach tog thu fhèin?' ['Won't you grow it yourself?'] to which Boc Geal an Reubainn suggests they all grow it together....
Dates:
1861 and c1866
Story entitled 'Fionladh Choinnachain', c1860
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/7
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Fionladh Choinnachain' continued from folio 14r collected from Donull Mac Cuieag [Donald MacCaig], Fearan an lea, who learnt it more that twenty years before from Donull Mac a Phee [Donald MacPhee], Talamsgeir [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea and Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story is about what happens to the giant killer after the old woman who helped him and his wife die. He loses everything and goes to the king for help. He is recognised as...
Dates:
c1860
Story entitled 'Fionladh Mac na Bantraich', c1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/27
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Fionladh Mac na Bantraich' noted as being 'From the "Journal"', collected from Donnshul Mac Cuiein [Donald MacQueen], Fearan na letha who learned it from the miller at Talamh Sgeir [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea and Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story tells how one of three brothers, the sons of Fionladh mac na Bantraich, set off to find his fortune and arrived at the palace of 'Righ Torra-fo-Thuin'. The king's daughter fell in love with him and...
Dates:
c1861
Story entitled 'Iain Mac An Alabanaich (a dh'fhalbh a' Troantairnaish)', June 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/29
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Iain Mac An Albanaich (a dh'fhalbh a' Troantairnaish)' collected from Domhnull Mac Cuiein [Donald MacQueen], Fearan na leth, who learned it from the miller at Talamhsgeir [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea and Talaisgeir/Talisker, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye] about 60 years previously [c1800]. It is a long tale which tells of the adventures of Iain the clever son of Raoghal Domhnallach [Ronald MacDonald] of Trotaranais [Tròndairnis/Trotternish, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle...
Dates:
June 1861
Story entitled 'La-fheil bride' about Mrs Major MacLeod, c1875
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW112/48
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'La-fheil bride' [Latha Fheille Bhrìde or St Bridget's Day] telling how on hearing that it was St Bridget's Day, Mrs Major MacLeod, the daughter of Flora MacDonald, 'started up got a stocking put something in it probably a piece of peat and proceded to pound it down with a mallet' repeating a rhyme beginning 'La-fheil-Bride thig niean Imhir as an toll'. This was a custom believed to stop snakes from stinging the person who did this for the whole year. St Bridget's Day was when...
Dates:
c1875
Story entitled 'Luaidag Bhe[a]g O'n Chailltain', 7 February 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/21
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Luaidag Bhig O'n Chailltain' [The Little Rag from the Hazel] collected from Donnach McDhiarmid [Duncan MacDiarmaid], Fearann an Leatha at Carbost [Fearann an Leagha/Fernilea and Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. The story tells of a girl who sets out to make her way in the world and is taken in by a wealthy man who asks her to go and take the hen of gold, the cockerel of silver, the sword of light and the bag of mischief from a giant. When she takes the hen, it...
Dates:
7 February 1861
Story entitled 'Mac a Ghobhain', 6 February 1861
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW109/18
Scope and Contents
Story entitled 'Mac a Ghobhain' collected from William [MacKenzie], Carbost [Càrabost, An t-Eilean Sgitheanach/Isle of Skye]. At the beginning of the story Carmichael notes 'Already in print page 84 Volum[e] 1st'. The story tells how the blacksmith's son asks the blacksmith to make him an iron stick. The blacksmith makes one, which is not strong enough but the second one is just right and so the blacksmith's son goes off with the ambition to make something of himself. He gets a job as a...
Dates:
6 February 1861