Mungan ga chleachdadh airson leigheas.
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Original Track ID
SA1964.77.B1
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Summary
Pearlwort used as a cure.
Pearlwort was said to be blessed. A man had a fairy sweetheart. He left her for a mortal woman and was afraid to go hunting in case he met her. He went to an island with his dogs one day. She appeared as he reached the shore. He began to row back, but she threw one end of a ball of wool into the boat and began to pull it ashore. He cut the wool with a knife she had given him. She called out: "MacPhee of the black dogs you have left me on the point."
He married and his wife became pregnant, but the child was late. The husband went to look for the fairy. He told her he had a goat which was having problems giving birth. She found this strange, as pearlwort was growing beneath the goat's feet. She realised he meant his wife and gave him a black belt to put around her. He tied it round a stone and it split it in two. He went to the goat pen for pearlwort and put it in his wife's bed. She soon gave birth.
Recording Location
County - Midlothian
Parish - Edinburgh
Village/Place - Edinburgh
Language
Gaelic
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Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good