Nova Scotia (Canada)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Story about a fairy woman trying to entrap a man, September 1872
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW90/135
Scope and Contents
Story about a fairy woman trying to entrap a man. The man is named as Lachlan ban mac Ruari Allasdair [Lachlan Bàn mac Ruaraidh Alasdair] and one night his three servants tried not to let him go to the fairy woman. He went away anyway and she begged him to marry her but he would not. The fairy tried to hypnotise him with a gold chain and every time he refused her she grabbed him around the waist. When the cock crowed she vanished. Lachlan went to Cape Breton [Canada] and died there ten years...
Dates:
September 1872
Study on the removal of French inhabitants of Nova Scotia in 1755
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1305
Scope and Contents
Including bibliography this bound illustrated volume has 293 pages.
The thesis is concerned with 'one of the earliest known historical accounts of the Acadian Deportation', an account based 'on primary documents, eye-witness accounts and Acadian oral tradition'. It provides an annotated edition of the original edition of the manuscript.
Dates:
2010