Tobar an Dualchais - Kist O Riches

Tiotal a' Chlàir - A family story about getting rid of a fairy changeling.
Fiosraichean - Betsy Whyte
Luchd-clàraidh -

Geàrr-chunntas - A family story about getting rid of a fairy changeling.

Betsy Whyte's mother told her, as true, that when she was about seven or eight, she was hawking in Perthshire with her mother, Maggie. They went to a shepherd's wife to ask for a few potatoes. The woman was exhausted looking after her bairn [child]. While the women went out to get the potatoes, Maggie's daughter was left looking after the bairn. It rose up and blew raspberries at her, so she ran out and whispered in cant to Maggie that there was something wrong. Maggie sent the woman to buy whisky to make a cure for colic.

While she was gone, she sent her daughter to get a shovelful of dung. Maggie put the bairn on top of the shovel and held it over the peat fire until it started cursing in Gaelic. Traveller women used to wear tartan plaids fastened with a steel skivver [skewer], and Maggie held this in her hand, as [fairies] don't like steel. It flew up the chimney and there was a great noise on the roof. Meanwhile, the real bairn was back in the cradle. When the mother came back, Maggie gave it a mixture and said nothing about what she had done. Later, Betsy's mother and grandmother heard voices speaking Gaelic in the hedges: her grandmother drew horseshoes with her skivver to keep them away until she got home.


Fad a' Chlàir (h:m:s) - 00:09:54
Àm Clàraidh - 1977.05.19
Cànan - Beurla, Albais
Seòrsa - Sgeulachd, Fiosrachadh
Cruinneachadh - Sgoil Eòlais na h-Alba

Àireamh a' Chlàir - 63936
Àireamh an Teip Thùsail - SA1977.122
Àireamh a' Chlàir Thùsail - SA1977.122
Càileachd an Fhuaime - Math
Cruth Inneal a' Chlàir - R2R


Notaichean a' Chlàir -

Ceangal Maireannach - http://www.tobarandualchais.co.uk/gd/fullrecord/63936/1


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