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Folklore.

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Traditional and expressive forms of culture, such as song, story, dance, ritual, handicraft, art, food ways, costume, custom, religion, architecture, and work skills, and of the processes and meanings that underlie them. (AAT) For all folklore type material, qualified by country where necessary. (NLS) .

Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:

Calendar written by Diarmuid Ó Fithcheallaigh; and a poem on the calendar usually attributed to Seán Ó Dubhagáin, followed by various medical texts, with some charms and folk cures.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.33
Scope and Contents The manuscript is written in the following hands.A. Diarmuid Ó Fithcheallaigh, cf. folio 1 verso.B. Donald Beaton, cf. page 84.C. Anonymous. Related in style to hand of Christopher Beaton, National Museum of Scotland H.MCR 40. D. Neil Beaton, cf. pages 33-34 and Adv.MS.72.1.2, folio 65 verso.E. Donnchadh Albannach Ó Conchubhair (1571-1647), cf. Adv.MS.73.1.22.F. Anonymous.G. Malcolm Beaton (flourished...
Dates: [Circa 1538], 1593-1596, undated.

Làithean sona agus làithean dona, 1954

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14003/23
Scope and Contents

Essay headed "Làithean sona agus làithean dona", part of which appeared in the Weekly Scotsman's column "A Highland Notebook" in 1954; see also Acc.14003/15. With further notes on lucky and unlucky days and traditions connected with certain days of the week.

Dates: 1954

Manuscripts with translations from Sanskrit, folk tales and sketches.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.9325
Dates: 20th century.

Microfilm of Gaelic manuscripts containing tales and mythological verse.

 Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1183
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows: Manuscript, 14th century-15th century, in Gaelic containing mythological verse. (Adv.MS.72.1.19);

Manuscript, 14th century-15th century, containing tales of destruction, in Gaelic (Adv.MS.72.1.8).

Dates: 14th century-15th century.

Notes on feast days and traditions connected with certain days, ca. 1953-1960

 Item
Identifier: Acc.14003/24
Scope and Contents

Notebook in Gaelic and English, containing notes on Gaelic traditions associated with certain days of the year. Partly copied from secondary literature. Begun from both ends.

Dates: ca. 1953-1960

Publisher`s file relating to all aspects of Aeneas MacKay`s 1933 edition of Robert Kirk`s "Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies".

 File
Identifier: Acc.12750
Scope and Contents

Includes 15 letters from R B Cunninghame Graham.

Dates: 1931-1933.

Thomas C Adams, "John Gipson: a Poetical Tale".

 Item
Identifier: Acc.3675
Dates: 1848.

Traditional tales and legends of Lanarkshire.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.3546
Scope and Contents

Comprising:

1. "Scottish Legends of the Days of Wallace and Bruce"

2. "A Tale of Flodden Field; Arming of the Craftsmen of Lanark, 1513"

3. "Traditionary Tales and Legends of Lanark".

Dates: 19th century.