Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Title - A man was changed into a woman and had a family before being...
Contributors - Betsy Whyte
Reporters - Alan J. Bruford

Summary - A man was changed into a woman and had a family before being changed back and winning a lying contest.

A laird held a ceilidh for his workers. Everybody had to "tell a story, sing a sang, show their bum, or oot they gang." There was a golden guinea for whoever told the biggest lie. One cattleman couldn't make up anything, so the laird sent him to clean out his boat, but he floated away in it. He discovered that he had turned into a woman. When 'she' landed, she met a young man, who took her home to his mother. In the course of time, they got married and had children. One day they were out walking and saw the boat. [Break to change tape.] The woman turned back into the cattleman and returned to find that no time had passed. Crying for his lost family, he told them what had happened, and won the guinea. The laird was a mesmerist and master of the black art and had made the cattleman imagine it all so that he would have something to tell.

Track Duration (h:m:s) - 00:07:26
Date Recorded - 1988.03.26
Language - English, Scots
Genre - Story
Collection - School of Scottish Studies

Track ID - 85484
Original Tape ID - SA1988.009
Original Track ID - SA1988.009; SA1988.010
Audio Quality - Good
Audio Format - R2R



Recording Location:
  County - Midlothian
  Parish - Edinburgh
  Village - Edinburgh

Item Notes - Performance at the Scottish Oral History Group Conference. A small part of the story is lost when the tape is changed: 'she' steps into the boat and is carried away. The same story is told on tapes SA1981.064 and SA1984.080.

Permanent Link - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/fullrecord/85484/1


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