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Ross and Cromarty Scotland

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 129 Collections and/or Records:

Charm entitled 'Uisg[e] Airgid', September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/90
Scope and Contents

Charm entitled 'Uisg[e] Airgid' probably collected from Isabella Chisholm née MacKenzie, [Mealabhaig/Melvaig, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: September 1909

Charm for cataract [Eòlas a' Ghulmain], 8 September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/89
Scope and Contents

Charm for cataract [Eòlas a' Ghulmain] collected from Isabell[a] Chisholm née MacKenzie, Meallabhaig [Mealabhaig/Melvaig, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 8 September 1909

Charm for stopping bleeding, 17 August 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/13
Scope and Contents

Charm for stopping bleeding beginning 'Obi fala deirge' collected from Margaret MacKenzie, cottar, Urrad [Urray, Ros is Crombadh/Ross and Cromarty] and a note which states that it should be made 'near water preferably near running water with the foot upon a stone'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 17 August 1909

Coded warning entitled 'Sanas a Phrionnas' and accompanying story, 13 September 1909

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/115
Scope and Contents

Coded warning entitled 'Sanas a' Phrionnsa' probably collected from Ruaraidh Matheson [Roderick Matheson], gamekeeper, Ath Nan Ceann/Anancaun, Ceann Loch Iù/Kinlochewe, Loch Maruibhe/Loch Maree, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty beginning 'Am piobaire - Sin an fhoill an a chulaobh' and accompanying story. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 13 September 1909

Cure entitled 'The Earnach', 11 September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/106
Scope and Contents

Cure entitled 'The Earnach' probably collected from Catherine MacLean, crofter, Naast, Gairloch, Ross and Cromarty [Nàst, Geàrr Loch, Ros is Cromba], for earnach dhearg and earnach ghlas [eàrna dhearg and eàrna ghlas, red murrain and grey murrain respectively]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 11 September 1909

Custom entitled 'Brosnachadh Caonaig', 24 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/131
Scope and Contents

Custom entitled 'Brosnachadh Caonaig' collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann describing how a fight would be started between school boys. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 24 June 1887

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates: 1887

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, August 1903 to July 1904

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW178
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, which he used to collect material mainly from a Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, Ciorstan MacLean née Cameron, Leideag, Barraigh/Isle of Barra and Margaret Campbell née Stewart and her husband Andrew, tinkers at Bohespic, Siorrachd Pheairt/Perthshire. There are twenty folios the first fourteen of which contain text. Most of the material was collected from Mary MacRae, who sang several waulking songs and...
Dates: August 1903 to July 1904

Fragment of a proverb beginning 'Bleadhan t sneachda bhuidhe', 22 August 1903

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW178/3
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a proverb probably collected from Mary MacRae, Dùnan, Letterfearn, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty, which reads 'Bleadhan t sneachda bhuidhe? Earrach Duibh a Challa? The snows of gr[e]at'. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 22 August 1903

Fragment of a story entitled 'Cuckoo', June 1887

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/116
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a story entitled 'Cuckoo', collected from Dun[can] Ceàm [Duncan Kemp], Cove, Poolewe [Poll-iùbh, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. The story tells how while dismantling a cairn in Lochadring, Geàrrloch [Loch an Draing, Gairloch] he found a bird, which looked dead but revived and so he put it back in the cairn. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: June 1887