Evil eye in the western HighlandsMaclagan, Robert Craig
Religion
Evil eye in the western Highlands
Maclagan, Robert Craig
Evil eye; Folklore; Superstition
unlicensed, 53
Practitioners vary, 164
Praised, animals she had, died, 87
butter scattered by being, 78
hen taken in dead by being, 79
pig injured by being, 79
Preventative, 117, 131, 132, 154, 163
charms, 141
Professional, 22
Professor, 210
of _eolas_, 96
Prognostications, 198
Protection of the Deity, 115
Quern, 205
Quey, 59
Quey, _air a cronachadh_, 66
blind, 59
calves, 193
Rag, burn a, 125
Remedy, 113
Request, 48
Rhyme, 154
Rift, 82
_Roin_, 94
Rowan, 118, 119, 133
_Sack of Da Derga’s Hostel_, 25
Saint Bridget, 160
_Salainn, dorlach_, 94
Salmon, 207, 208
Salt, a preservative, 83
and urine, sprinkled with, 136
used as a cure and preventative, 176
Sell, risky to refuse to, 49, 88
Serpent’s stone, 170, 171, 203
Seven small stones, 168
_Sgeith_, 19
_Sgil mu’n chronachaidh_, 111
_Sheirbhis, pris airson a_, 111
_Sheumais Eoin’s Pheadair_, 148
_Ruaidh_, 151
Shilling, 109, 161
_Shuil, an droch_, 16, 23
_bhuail an droch_, 16
_Fluich do_, 127
_ghabh an droch_, 17
_mo_, 116
_thuit an droch_, 17
Sign of the Cross, 159
that it was the Evil Eye, 162
Silver brooch, 160
coin, 30, 115, 155, 156, 158, 165, 166, 203
cure, 161
gold and copper, 161
piece, 108
Silver, white, 108
Sixpence to give her, 108
Skill, 101
Skilled, 51, 60, 71
Skin, 144
Slime, 170
Smiths, 84
_Snaithnean_, 145
_Snathainn cronachaidh_, 141
_dearg_, 95, 142
_Snuim_, 95, 142
Son of Mary, 160
_Sop_, 208
Sorcery, 6
Spells, 6
Spilling, 186
Spirit of health and healing, 160
Spit, 126
Spitting into the healing water, 165
Spot from which three parishes could be seen, 182
Sprinkle, used regularly to, 135
Sprinkled, 147, 152, 153, 155, 156, 157, 161, 164, 168, 193
_Sreang a’ chronachaidh_, 141
Stanes, bunch o’ sea-shore, 169
Stirk, 221
Stone, water dashed against, 155
Stones, and silver, performance with, 167
certain, used for curing in Evil Eye cases, 167
in the pokes, 189
taken from a particular burn, 167
_Suil sanntach_, 42
Tar, an Islay application against the Evil Eye, 132
_T-aibhisdear_, 220
Tether, waving it three times over the horse, 149
_Teum_, 17, 85
Thread, cure, 211
different colours used, 147
green, 148
must always be green lint, 147
red, 145, 146, 147
three knots on the, 145, 201
to be put three times round the child’s neck, 147
woollen, 145, 146
Threads, two, one black, and one white, 148
Three articles, 148
_Tiomnadh nuadh_, 94
_Tobar, ris an taobh deas_, 152
_o’n taobh deas_, 181
Toothache, curing of, 93
_Toradh_, 216, 223
bring back the, 109
meaning of, 5, 6
power of taking away, 101
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