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Customs and Stories from Grimsay
- Location:
- Grimsay
- Year:
- 1997
- Language(s):
- English
- Fieldworker:
- Tracy Chipman
- Contributors:
- Mary MacLean
- Info:
- Mary MacLean explains customs on Grimsay such as whitewashing, ceilidhing, Christmas, thatching, picnics, fishing, collecting cockles, peat-cutting, cutting seaweed, spinning, blessing the weaving loom and boats, courting and marriage. Tracy tells a story of the kidnapping of a witch from Skye. Mary tells stories on the evil eye, premonitions, foretelling, the kidnapping of a witch, ghosts, shape-shifting, ghosts, the Kraken and seal people in 1997. She also tells a version of ‘The Shieling of the One Night.
- Keywords:
- conversation story
- Additional Info:
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