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Cas a’ Mhogain Riabhaich
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Notes: a Glencoe or Kintyre witch.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[druigheachd]
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Cuir druigheachd air. Bewitch him.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ban-bhuidseach
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nn f. ‘witch’ : thàinig a’ ~ [vãũ vuʧəx] seo ‘-staigh
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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bana-bhuids
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[bɑṉɑvudʹʃ] Notes: witch.
Location: Sutherland, Embo
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bana-bhuidseach
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Notes: a witch.
Location: Skye, Elgol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bana-bhusdraich
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witch. (Éir.)
Location: ? [Eriskay – see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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banabhuids
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[bɑ̃ṉɑvu̟ḏʃ] Notes: witch.
Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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banabhuisd
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[bɑ̃ṉɑvu̜ʃdʹ] Notes: witch.
Location: Sutherland, Bettyhill, Swordly
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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banabhuisd
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Notes: witch; woman reputed to practice witchcraft.
Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie, Oldshoremore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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banabhuisleach
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Notes: witch.
Location: Romasdal
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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banabhuisleach (sic)
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Notes: a witch.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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blaisnagaich
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nervous twitching of the lips and jaw. A chewing motion. [NOTES: corrected to ‘blaisneagaich’.]
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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boca-na-buisrichean
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‘witches’ bag’. To me the term sounded as indicated. It may be a variation from the buidseachd form. Perhaps it is also found in various ways. We also use buidseachd or were using it here in Scalpay.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bonnach-luirgeadh
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Notes: said to be the reward given to a person by a witch for telling her when someone’s cow had calved. She would then put a spell on the cow to render it dry.
Location: Tiree
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bubaid
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button or plug. It may have originated from ‘button’ in English. Seldom heard today if at all. The word could be used in connection with the electric switch to-day, it was or to a likewise ‘wart’ say it was used – also materially [?]. [SLIP: Button; used also of ‘electric switch’. Seldom used nowadays.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buidseach
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[budʹʃəx] Quotation: “Port nam Buidseachan” – place-name. Notes: a witch’s curse; also witch.
Location: Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buidseachd
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nn f. ‘witchcraft’: bha e air ~ air son rudeigin a dhèanamh; bha i car làn buidseach’ ‘s a leithid siud is an seo
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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buidseachd
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Quotation: Tha buidseachd aice. Notes: She has the power of witchcraft.
Location: Skye, Kilmuir
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buidseachd
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n. ‘witchcraft’: bhiodh iad a’ bruidhinn ~; bha poidhle do bh. air innse dìreach air a’ bhaile air a bheil thu ann an seo
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Inverness Co., Dunvegan
Category: Word List
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builliartaich
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a witch. [NOTES: a note added above – muileartach.]
Location: South Uist, Iochdar
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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builliarteach
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witch.
Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buisdeachd
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Notes: witchcraft.
Location: Sutherland, Kinlochbervie, Oldshoremore
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buisneachd
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[bu̜ʃnʹɔ̃xk] Notes: witchcraft.
Location: Ross-shire, Aultbea
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buisrichean
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spell. [NOTES: the slip gives the quotation ‘boca-na-buisrichean’. Definition: Witche’s [sic] bag; ‘buisrichean’ – spell.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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buistreach
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witchcraft.
Location: [Harris], Leverburgh, Kintulavaig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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busraichean
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witchcraft.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cramag
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small pancake, made of flour, switched eggs and milk.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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criobhachdan
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mannerisms, twitchings.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cronachadh
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[krɔ̣̃nəxəɣ] Quotation: “air a chronachadh” – bewitched. Notes: bewitching.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cuiseag
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Notes: a switch, e.g. of birch as used for hurrying a cow.
Origin: Applecross
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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diosgadaich
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[dʹwsɡəd̪iç] Quot.: “a’ diosgadaich na chadal”. Note: twitching in one’s sleep.
Origin: [Ness]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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doideag
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a witch.
Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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eachrais ùrlair
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a witch.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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eolas cronachaidh
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[ɛɔ̣ɫẹs krɔ̣̃nəxẹç] Notes: knowledge of witchcraft; witchcraft.
Location: Ross of Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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fiosaiche
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witch.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Cluer
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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geasach
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witch.
Location: Na Hearadh [Harris], Cluer
Category: Nàdur an Duine / Personality
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gnath-fiosachd
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custom associated with witchcraft.
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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leth chlàr ùrlar
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witch.
Location: South Uist, South Lochboisdale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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leóbag-cham
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Note: a flatfish (DJMK says it is a witch) which has its mouth and eyes the opposite way to the normal. Yellowish-brown colour.
Origin: [Caversta]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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maide eich
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a twitch used for controlling a horse when it was being shod. Made of a wooden handle with a rope at one end attached to the horse’s face. When it was twisted, it tightened so as to hurt the horse.
Location: South Uist, South Glendale
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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mulachag Bealltuinn
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a portion of cheese made on the first day of May and kept in the house till the same debt [sic] [date?] next year. Old people believed this would prevent the dairy produce (toradh) being bewitched.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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omhan-fuar [ɔ̃əṉfu̟əɾ]
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Notes: warm milk with a little rennet added, allowed to set in cold water, then switched.
Location: Ross-shire, Achiltibuie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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piolasg
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mischievous boy; a small switch or button attached to metal. Cha’ eil agad ach do làmh a chuir air a phiolasg ud ’s a thionnadh [sic]. [NOTES: the slip has ‘Chan eil agad ach do làmh a chur air a’ phiolasg ud ’s a thionndadh.’ Definition: 1. Mischievous boy. 2. Small switch or metal button (as in above quote).]
Location: Harris, Scalpay
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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poca-na-buisrichean
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a bag in [sic] which witchcraft is associated. (Scalpay) [NOTES: slipped under ‘poca-nam-buisrichean’. Definition: Witches’ bag.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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poca-na-busraichean
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a spell by a witch through a bag connected with witchcraft.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sguidsigeadh
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[sɡu̟ḏʃiɡʹəɣ] Notes: “switching” – cutting the top off the bracken.
Location: Ross-shire, Dornie, Morvich
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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siataige-caoich
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Note: form of rheumatism which affected the nerve, causing twitching.
Origin: [Lewis], Arnol
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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snaoidheadh
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Quotation: Cha shnaoidheadh e a ghàirdean. Notes: Dw. has snaoth and snaothadh in sense of ‘jerk, twitch’. Source: Lewis usage (DST).
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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steamhag
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Notes: used to translate ‘switch’ (of bramble) in exam. [?] prose. Dw. steafag. (?Eng. staff) Source: Agnes MacLeod, Tolsta Chaolais, Lewis. Date: 1979.
Location: [see below]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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suidse
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Quotation: Ma bha iad leisg gu tòiseachadh chuir Dòmhnall suidse riutha. Notes: ‘haste, impetus’. Not in Dw. From Eng. ‘switch’ (?). Source: Lewis colloquial usage recalled (D.S.T.) Date: 27/12/1971.
Location: Lewis
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ullag
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Notes: switched cream, oatmeal and sugar. The cream came out of the churn when making butter.
Location: Ross-shire, Achiltibuie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ùgh air a bhualadh
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switched egg. Given with milk and a tablespoonful of brandy to someone who had a poor appetite.
Location: South Uist, Garrynamonie
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
