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[caora]
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Math na caorach, cron an eich, oidhche muigh is oidhche stigh.
Origin: [North Uist?]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[cron]
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Tha a chron sin ort. The blame is at your door.
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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[cron]
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Bheil thu ri cron? – Are you engaged in mischief?
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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an tòc
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This is a mystery somewhat akin to the King’s Evil, only in this instance, animals are the sufferers. An operation is performed on the eye of the animal (sheep or cow). The eyelid is turned outwards and by means of a darning needle and a piece of thread, some particular part surrounding the eye is manipulated so that it can be cut off. This gives immediate relief to the animal. Veterinary surgeons do not believe in it. An instance was quoted to me last summer. The man telling the story told me he had been to a village in Lochs. There was a cow, very far through, stretched out on the ground practically at its last gasp when my friend arrived. The vet had been called and had given her up as hopeless. My friend asked, “Na dh’fhiach sibh bheil an tòc oirr?” “Chan eil fhios againne dé th’ann an tòc.” “Uill bheir mise an tòc bhair na bà agus mur a dèan e feum, cha dèan e cron ’sam bith oirre co dhiubh.” He performed the operation and in ten minutes’ time the cow was on its feet and eating the grass. The amazing thing is that the people of Lochs had never heard of this most effective operation which is still regularly performed in Uig.
Origin: Lewis, Uig
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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clàraidh
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[kɫɑ̟:rẹj] Quotation: clàraidh air a chuir cron [?] dh’fhaoid’e.
Location: Mull
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cron
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nn ‘harm’: ‘s e cron a rinn e dhan fhear[+ epenth. [ə] dhubh
Location: Canada, Cape Breton, Broadcove
Category: Field Notebooks of Seosamh Watson June-August 1983
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peiriceil
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(Fuaimnich mar ‘meirgeach’.) Chuala mi bodach ag ràdh uaireigin “Cha téid e as mo dhiochuimhn’ gu bràth peiriceil mo mhionaich.” Dh’ith e rudeigin a rinn cron anabarrach air. Thug e gaoth air, ’s thug e pian air, ’s thug e a h-uile seòrsa rud a bh’ann air. Tuigidh sibh fhéin. Bha na balaich a’ gàireachdaich.
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
