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Ban-sithiche
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Ban-shee (fairy).
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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Meuran nan Daoine Sithich
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[mɛ̜:ran nən dɤnʹə ʃi:iç] foxglove (nickname). [NOTES: the slip has [mɛ̜:raṉ ṉəṉ dɤnʹə ʃiˈiç]. Definition: Foxglove. (‘The thimble of the fairy people’).]
Origin: Kill-Fhinn
Category: Crodh / Cattle
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brùgh-cheò
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fairy mist.
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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bàn
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Quotation: “Leig e bàn am fearann.” (fallow – uncultivated) “Gearr a bhalaich, gearr, / Do mhòine fada bàn (pale) / ’S tu as deigh chàich.” Song of a fairy who came to help an old man. Bó bhan [sic] – white cow. Grunn de chearcan bàna – a flock (number) of white hens. An talamh bàn – the virgin soil, uncultivated ground, untouched, clean.
Origin: West Lewis [the location given on the slips]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cathair
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fairy knoll. (W. Ross)
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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cearcall-sìthche
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fairy-ring.
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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ceol-sìth
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fairy music. [NOTES: the slip has ‘ceòl-sìth’.]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris, Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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crann tràigh
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“… that the fairy cross was also called crann tràigh.” (page 220)
Origin: [Lewis, Uig an Iar]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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deilbhinn
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ghost, fairy, image. (W. Ross)
Location: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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sròn dubh an t-sithein
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the black point of the fairy knoll.
Origin: Lochaber
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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stol-sìthiche
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toad-stool (sìthiche – fairy). Now, I am not quite certain of this compound word; if you cannot find another definition, I could imagine it quite appropriate for you to accept it. I recollect it only very vague. [NOTES: the slip has ‘stòl-sìthiche’. Definition: Toadstool (but uncertain).]
Location: Na Hearadh, Scalpaigh [Harris,Scalpay]
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
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éigheach-tathaisg
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Notes: shout heard be people outside before a person died. A fairy called Caoineag in charge of it. Her laments heard in vicinity where death imminent. Last heard in Skye about 1910 in vicinity of Portree. Wailing heard in the immediate vicinity of Portree. Matter brought to attention of Rev. Norman MacLeod, most learned [?] of his day. Said that holocaust would follow. Fulfilled in 1914 War.
Origin: Skye
Category: Measgaichte / Miscellaneous
