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bratag
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Quotation: bratag a’ bhuntàta. Notes: white worm with a red head.
Location: Skye, Stein
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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[b̥ɾɑ˖htɑ˖ɡ] Notes: large black hairy caterpillar.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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furry caterpillar.
Location: South Uist, South Boisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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Notes: (1) caterpillar. (2) worm found in potatoes.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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Note: caterpillar.
Location: Harris, Quidinish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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a brown and black beast found in grass. Similar to a caterpillar in shape.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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Quotation: bratag-thomhais. Notes: brown caterpillar found on the moor. (Exclusive to this?) [NOTES: slipped under ‘bratag-thomhais’.]
Location: Skye, Breakish
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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Notes: caterpillar.
Location: Coll, Arinagour
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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Note: applied to greenish brown hairy caterpillar found on the moor.
Origin: Carloway, Doune
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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Notes: caterpillar.
Origin: Islay, Port Charlotte
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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Notes: caterpillar.
Origin: North Uist
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag
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Notes: cabbage caterpillar.
Origin: Strontian
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag-bhuntàta
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Notes: white worm with a red head.
Location: Glendale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag-fhraoich
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‘heather caterpillar’.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bratag-fhraoich
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if allowed to draw itself across a patient’s tongue was believed to be a cure for
the patient suffering from burns. I have heard this mentioned – perhaps faith
cure.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Blàthan-Leighis / Medicinal Plants
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bratag-thomhais
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Notes: brown caterpillar.
Location: Skye, Kyleakin
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
