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Carmina Gadelica is a compendium of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, literary-folkloric poems and songs, proverbs, lexical items, historical anecdotes, natural history observations, and miscellaneous lore gathered in the Gaelic-speaking regions of Scotland between 1860 and 1909. The material was recorded, translated, and reworked by the exciseman and folklorist Alexander Carmichael (1832–1912).

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Carmina Gadelica

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Carmina Gadelica is a compendium of prayers, hymns, charms, incantations, blessings, literary-folkloric poems and songs, proverbs, lexical items, historical...

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Imbolc

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traditional songs and rites from sources such as The Silver Bough and The Carmina Gadelica. It is a time of honouring the goddess Brigid, and many of her dedicants...

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Alexander Carmichael

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between 1864 and 1882. Alexander Carmichael is best known today for Carmina Gadelica, an influential but controversial compendium of edited Highland lore...

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Beltane

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Gaelic song Am Beannachadh Bealltain ("The Beltane Blessing") in his Carmina Gadelica, which he heard from a crofter in South Uist. The first two verses...

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Brigid

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University Press, 2011. pp.66–67, 467–470 Carmichael, Alexander (1900) Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations, Ortha Nan Gaidheal, Volume I, p. 169 The Sacred...

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Caoineag

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made to grant wishes. The Scottish folklorist Alexander Carmichael in Carmina Gadelica states that she foretells the death of those slain in battle, and that...

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Saint Michael in the Catholic Church

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consecutive days. A prayer to St. Michael for protection is found in the Carmina Gadelica, collected by Alexander Carmichael in the Gaelic-speaking regions of...

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Incantation

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an exclusive language.": 182  The Anglo-Saxon metrical charms The Carmina Gadelica, a collection of Gaelic oral poetry, much of it charms The Atharvaveda...

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Lughnasadh

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pp. 102–3, 106. ISBN 0-919345-26-3. Carmichael, Alexander (1992). Carmina Gadelica. Lindisfarne Press. ISBN 0-940262-50-9. Danaher, Kevin (1962). The...

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Beithir

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Life. Blackie & Son Limited. p. 247. Carmichael, Alexander (1900). Carmina Gadelica (Vol. 2). Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable. p. 228. Campbell, John Francis...

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Groundhog Day

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from the original on August 3, 2020, retrieved December 22, 2017 "Carmina Gadelica Vol. 1: II. Aimsire: Seasons: 70 (notes). Genealogy of Bride. Sloinntireachd...

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Saining

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Ronald, The Gaelic Otherworld, 2005, p136-7, 211 Carmichael, Alexander, Carmina Gadelica Volume II, 1900, p26-37 Macbain, Etymological Dictionary of Scottish-Gaelic...

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Celtic neopaganism

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traditional prayers and songs from sources such as the Scottish Gaelic Carmina Gadelica or manuscript collections of ancient Irish or Welsh poetry. They also...

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Cailleach

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Company, Edinburgh, November 2023, p. 11 Carmichael, Alexander (1992). Carmina Gadelica. Lindisfarne Press. ISBN 0-940262-50-9 Campbell, John Gregorson (1900...

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John Lorne Campbell

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Notes on Hamish Robertson's Studies in Carmichael's Carmina Gadelica. ------ p. 183. Carmina Gadelica George Henderson's Corrections and Suggestions. [to...

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Ossian

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"Ossian-kultusz Magyarországon", Egyetemes Philologiai Közlöny (LVII): 66–76 Carmina Gadelica, Alexander Carmichael, printed by T. & A. Constable, Edinburgh, 1900...

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A Gaelic Blessing

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as those found in the Christian-era Scottish Gaelic collection, the Carmina Gadelica. Rutter has said that his English-only composition is based on "an...

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May Day

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collected the song Am Beannachadh Bealltain (The Beltane Blessing) in his Carmina Gadelica, which he heard from a crofter in South Uist. Scottish May Day/Beltane...

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Presentation of Jesus

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needed] The same is true in Italy, where it is called Candelora. The Carmina Gadelica, a seminal collection of Scottish folklore, refers to a serpent coming...

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The Forest House

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Bellini's opera Norma. The hymns in chapters 17 and 24 are from the Carmina Gadelica collected by Rev. Alexander Carmichael in the late 19th century. The...

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Taynuilt

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Capercaillie are from Taynuilt. Dr Alexander Carmichael, the author of Carmina Gadelica, lived in Taynuilt in the early 1900s. Hutton, Guthrie (2013). Old...

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Ceasg

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goddess to whom human beings were sacrificed. Carmichael, Alexander. Carmina Gadelica, Vol. I & II: Hymns and Incantations. Forgotten Books. p. 387. ISBN 1-60506-172-7...

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Scottish mythology

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Edinburgh, Birlinn Ltd. ISBN 1-84158-207-7 Carmichael, Alexander (1992) Carmina Gadelica: Hymns and Incantations (with illustrative notes on wards, rites, and...

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