Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - Body-snatchers.
Contributors - Kate Ross
Reporters - Calum Iain Maclean

Summary - Body-snatchers.

A minister's two maids, relations of Kate Ross's grandparents, were going home to Gruids. There was no bridge over Loch Shin then: they crossed by a "clacharan" [stepping stones]. They met a cart and one of them put her hand on it. There was a corpse in it. The body-snatchers chased them and would have killed them. It was terrible in the days of dissecting. There is a little building called "taigh-caithris" [a watch-house], in a graveyard.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:01:50
Date Recorded - 1955
Language - English
Genre - Story, Information
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 273
Original Tape ID - SA1955.120
Original Track ID - SA1955.120.A3
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R



Recording Location:
  County - Sutherland
  Village - Lairg


Item Location:
  County - Sutherland
  Village - Lairg

Item Notes -

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/273/1


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