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Bhìd sinn-seanmhair an fhiosraiche corrag mèirlich dheth.

Date 1968
Track ID 58220
Part 1

Track Information

Original Track ID

SA1968.025.B

Original Tape ID

SA1968.025

Summary

The contributor's great-grandmother bit off a cattle thief's finger.

Seònaid, the contributor's great-grandmother, was a dairymaid to the duke in Inveraray. She and her husband, John Black, moved to Tiree later. The duke's cattle were being stolen and Seònaid stayed up with them one night. A cattle thief came and was feeling the cattle. He put his finger in Seònaid's mouth and she bit it off. She gave it to the duke.

Item Notes

See 'Tocher' 18 pp. 48-49 for a full transcription and translation of another narration of this story.

Item Location

County - Argyllshire

Parish - Inveraray

Village/Place - Inveraray

Language

Gaelic

Collection

SoSS

Source Type

Reel to reel

Audio Quality

Good