Two rhymes to protect children from the supernatural, from t...
Track Information
Original Track ID
SA1961.89.B33; SA1961.89.B34
Original Tape ID
Summary
Two rhymes to protect children from the supernatural, from the Shetland Folk Society collection, collected by E. S. Reid Tait.
The following rhyme was said to children before they went to sleep to guard them from all evil:
Mary midder, haud dy haund roond aboot for sleepin baund,
Haad da lass an haad da wife, haad the bairns aa der life,
Mary midder, haud dy haund roond da bairns ower land.
The following rhyme was to protect children from trows [trolls, fairies]:
Hushaba minner's dattie, we shall pit the trows awa,
Broonie [brownie] sanna [shall not] get the bairn,
An if he comes the cocks'll craa.
Recording Location
County - Shetland
Parish - Lerwick
Island - Shetland Mainland
Village/Place - Lerwick
Item Location
County - Shetland
Language
Scots
Genre
Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good