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This is a short lullaby. The composer states that she has plenty of cattle.

In this lullaby, the composer lists what the child will get when he/she grows up.

A strange book and the fairies. A man was visiting a friend in a nearby township. This friend gave him a strange book concerning the occult, and told him not to open it on the way home. However, a...

A family who escaped the Glencoe Massacre. On the night before the Massacre of Glencoe, a Campbell soldier tried to warn the MacDonalds of their impending doom. He was a piper, and played a partic...

This is a cradle song. The contributor tells the story and then sings the song. When Prince Charles Edward Stewart was a fugitive, he came to Lochaber. A carpenter made a large cradle, and it was p...

Twenty proverbs, with some explanations.

Daorghlas and the smithy. Rudha na Ceàrdach goes out into Loch Lealt. At one time, when the smithy was operational, the blacksmith was so secretive about his work that he would not let anyone in. ...

Uncommon words from the Isle of Skye. One hundred and twenty-five Gaelic words which the contributor has not seen in a dictionary, with meanings given in English.

Information about smiths and smithies. The old smithies were built close to water. The smith was educated and highly regarded. Nobody but the smith was allowed to enter the smithy. He kept his cra...

Information about an old church in Kilmartin. There was an old church in Kilmartin cemetery in Stenschol which was built before the Reformaton. The last of its rafters was used in a fight after a ...