The games & diversions of Argyleshire ..

Maclagan Robert Craig 1839-

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• Langue: English
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i i i S S-i-l !!niili i f i.r!ii''H!1A .mFOR COLLECTING AND PRINTING
OF POPULAR &c.RELICS ANTIQUITIES,
ESTABLISHED IN
YEAR MDCCCLXXVIII.THE
PUBLICATIONS
OP
SOCIETY.THE FOLK-LORE
XLVIL
[1900]THE
GAMES & DIVERSIONS
OF
ARGYLESHIRE
COMPILED BY
ROBERT CRAIG M.DMACLAGAN,
"" !Aibainn bheadarrach
LONDON
SOCIETY BYFOR THE FOLK-LOREPUBLISHED
LONG ACREDAVID NUTT, 57-59
1901s
Printed HANSON 6 Co.by BALLANTYNE,
At the PressBallantynePREFACE
WHEN the Folk-Lore the ofSociety suggested collecting
sent athe writer circular tocounty folk-lore, (August 1893)
all and some others in andclergymen, school-teachers, Argyle
its attached if would assist.islands, theyasking Headings
for the various and hints on the best methods ofsubjects
and information werecollecting noting given.
of the first on theOne answers, specimen collecting-sheet
sent was :out,
"In two ... . . . and . . .volumes, by viz., published
William Paterson &Paterson,by Edinburgh (now Company,
Paternoster Dr. will find all thatRow, London). Maclagan
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could be collected of interest in the andSuperstitionsany
Folk-Lore of the West ist,Highlands,' September 1893."
and without of this wasThough unsigned, locality origin,
not all of worth re-but finding somethingencouraging, hope
much was to bewas not abandoned. That doneyetcording
has been the work of ofproved by Gregorson Campbell Tiree,
and Malcolm of Kilmartin. This is a further en-MacPhail
and it is while it sodeavour in the same is,direction, hoped,
far as the collection of but Scottishknown, only nothing
if form a forthat it evengames, may, imperfect, groundwork
a other observers.complete exposition, probably by
This is the of and of fellow-workersage co-operation, my
I the assistance of:wish to acknowledge specially
till of the F. C.Miss Elizabeth M. Manse,Kerr, recently
without whose enthusiasticPort aCharlotte, Islay, colleague
assistance this collection would never have appeared.
Also Miss Jessie Macleod, Auchoish, Ardrishaig.vi PREFACE
The Rev. Neil of Kilchrennan.Campbell
Mr. Peter New SelmaMacDonald, House, Ledaig.
Mr. Colin Public and School, Lochbuy;
Mr. Ian now to the ClanMacdougall, Secretary MacDougall
Society.
The to the areairs which were noted inrhymes sung
Sol-fa Mr. Donald Port andby Macfadyen, Charlotte, Islay,
translated into the older notation Miss Effieby Maclagan,
Edinburgh.
hardNo and fast line has been but the contentsdrawn,
are found in use in at thesimply pastimes Argyleshire present
There has been no to connoteday. attempt games played
elsewhere in Britain. The student who desires to do this has
the material in Mrs. Gomme's "Traditionalnecessary (British)
Games" vols. the first sectionLondon, 1894-98, forming(2
"
of her Britishof Folk-Lore a monumental work,Dictionary "),
to which this be considered anmay appendix.
noThe Gaelic critic will doubt find weak but if,places,
he attacks the use of the word cailleach for ae.g., frequent
but if the chil-we admit the word should be"den," callaidh,
"dren will call it the old we their aswife," accept joke par-
takers in fun.their
R. M.C.