Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Shetland and Orkney exclusiveness.
1953
Shetland and Orkney exclusiveness. It was an awful disgrace for a Shetlander or an Orcadian to be seen going out with a Scotsman. T...
Contributors: Charles Simpson
Reporters: Hamish Henderson

A murder over a girl and the ghostly horse that haunts the f...
1966.08.31
A murder over a girl and the ghostly horse that haunts the field. Two men, who were rivals for a girl, were threshing corn near Str...
Contributors: Peter Leith
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford

Information about the Book of Black Arts; a man rescued from...
1967.09
Information about the Book of Black Arts; a man rescued from it by a minister. Peter Leith heard about the Book of Black Arts from ...
Contributors: Peter Leith
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford

A field damaged by a profit-taking witch; a tradition of red...
1967.09
A field damaged by a profit-taking witch; a tradition of red stubble on Eynhallow. Peter Leith's father told him a story he'd heard...
Contributors: Peter Leith
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford

An Orkney row of houses built with a crooked front wall to k...
1967.09
An Orkney row of houses built with a crooked front wall to keep out the Devil. Peter Leith and his father one time walked down to N...
Contributors: Peter Leith
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford

Children making seggie [yellow flag] boats were warned on no...
1967.09
Children making seggie [yellow flag] boats were warned on no account to touch the leaf to their lips or they would go dumb.
Contributors: Peter Leith
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford

Half-Past Ten
1967.09.25
In this comic courtship song, the singer's efforts to court Jean are frustrated by her father's barring the door at half-past ten ea...
Contributors: Ethel Findlater, Elsie Johnston
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford

The Gosport Tragedy
1967.09.25
A tragic ballad in which a young woman is seduced by a ship's carpenter and falls pregnant. He tells her he must leave to go to sea,...
Contributors: Ethel Findlater, Elsie Johnston
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford

Andrew Ross
1967.09.25
In this gruesome ballad, Orkney sailor Andrew Ross is tortured horribly by Captain Rogers on board the Martha Jane; he is savaged by...
Contributors: Ethel Findlater, Elsie Johnston
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford

Robin Tamson's Smiddy
1967.09.25
In this comic courtship song, the singer visits Robin Tamson's smithy, and while having his horse shod, woos the smith's daughter. S...
Contributors: Ethel Findlater
Reporters: Alan J. Bruford