INDEX

Acallam na Senorach, 3

Acquaintances, divided into two classes, 46

Admiration, expressions of, to be avoided, 76

Albumen, 198

Alum, 144

Amhairc, droch, 5

Animal, 110, 140, 145, 146, 150

An t-olc, 11

Antiseptic, 132

Augury, 198

Bad e’e, 2

eye, 25, 30, 43, 54, 207, 208

One, held by the, 106

Bardic Irish stories, 123

Bawbees, 154

Beannachadh, 98, 116, 124, 208

Dia, 116

Beliefs, 23

Bhioball, 95

Bhuidseachas, sgil mu, 13

Biblical account, 214

Bitten, 85

Black Art, 114, 123

pokes, 189

thorn, sloe, 138

Bless, 77, 115

Blessed, 115

Father, 160

for the purpose of keeping away the Evil Eye, 114

Blessing seems merely preventative, 117

Blight, 45, 152

by the Evil Eye, 69, 79

Blinked, 45, 164

Bodach granda, 96

Bonnet, darning needle stuck in a, 204

Bothan, 117

Bottle, 109, 113, 136, 137, 146, 147, 153, 177, 191, 221

Bridge, 165

Bruchag, 131

Buidseach, 197

dh’ oibrich am, 14

Henderson, 142

Hendry, 95

Buidseachas, 11, 13, 14, 182, 220

Burning stick, 143

waved over it, 131

Burnt, if any man’s work shall be, 125

Burrach, 121

Butter not to be seen by anybody, 86

Cac eun, 18

Cailb, Samon, Sinand, 26

Cailleach, 134

Cairbre, 123

Caorain dearg, 114

Cap under her two knees, 106

“Carmina Gadelica,” 104

Cat cure, 196

Ceapag caise, 205

Chaoran, slat de’n, 95

Charm, 137, 146, 153, 159, 197, 198

Charm, operated a, 77

Charmed string, 21

Charms, 6, 149

Chickens, air an cronachadh, 66

Cholic, 62

Chratachan, 95

Christian dogma, 163

Chronachadh, air a, 23, 44, 62, 76, 102, 112, 151, 157, 161

injury by, 153

Churn, 123

horse nail tied to the, 121

nailing the shoe of a colt to the, 121

scalding the, 173

staff, 130, 143

Churning, 29, 37, 57, 65, 99, 122, 124, 129, 198

spoiled by the Evil Eye, 72, 73, 78

Cinder, 128

Circle formed by the thread, 143

Circular motion, 145

Clach-na-sùil, 169

Cloth thrown over the churn, 86

Clothing, burning a piece of the, 125

Cluais, 193

Coat, wrong side out, 131

Coins, 157, 158, 163

or brooch, 159

three, seem to be the essential number, 159

Columba, 160, 205

Cook protects ducklings, 86

Cormac’s Glossary, 5

Corp creadha, 9

Covetous, 200

desire, 1, 2

glance, 3

Cow’s head and horns, 161

Cron, 81

meaning of, 6, 16, 30

Cronachadh, 12, 13, 15, 22, 34, 88, 97, 98, 103, 124, 135, 154, 165, 203

air a, 57, 91

air an, 11, 15, 16, 32, 54, 92, 186, 187

air do shuil, 18

cases of, 32, 150

cure in cases of, 22

fhuair mi, 13

is just envy, 42

is quite common, 41, 167

is still in it, 35, 78, 79

Crown piece, 159

Curative, 117, 184

ritual, 201

water, 201

Cure, 181, 215

view to its, 48

Cured by magic, 56

thread, 53

Darning needle, 169, 203

Decalogue, 200

Deide, 92, 93, 94

Deity, 115

Dh’itheas, 19

Diagnosis, 139, 162, 180, 198

Dish struck on the bottom three times, 161

Divinity, 204

Dosgach, 15, 219, 220

Drawing the tether, 89

Droch sgeul, 23, 39, 44, 46, 102, 194

Drovers, 112

looked on with suspicion, 48, 49

Druids, affinity to smiths, 84

Ear, nicking the, 134

Eibhleag as an teine, 128, 173

Eolas, 6, 91, 92, 152, 176, 188, 189, 190

a’ chronachaidh, 62, 91, 94

applied for, 97

deide, 93, 94

gach ni’n aite fein, 94

greim, 94

his father had, 98

is from father to daughter, 102

made the, 112

makin’, 173

man, 110, 136, 150, 167, 184, 186, 194, 210, 212, 216, 219

nathrach, 94

performance, 97

practitioner of, 23, 149

professor of, 149, 172

professors of, 96

sul, 94

was kept in the family, 103

woman, 109, 112, 147, 165, 168, 184, 210, 213

Eructation connected with the Evil Eye and witchcraft, 83

Evil Eye, 1, 5, 10, 13, 16, 197, 200, 203, 205, 207, 210, 219

action of an, 55

anybody may have the, 24

avoiding suspicion of, 32

belief in, 1, 12, 20, 45, 88, 154, 163

belief that he himself had an, 33

believed in, 33, 43, 140

believer in the, 8, 129, 158

case of the, 51, 148, 190

cases of the, 146

casting the, 26

cattle more liable to damage from the, 53

churning spoiled by the, 61, 124, 129

counteracting the, 48, 131

cows dying from effect, of the, 56

developed by relation of sexes, 1

different from witchcraft, 89

difficulty of evolving a theory, 67

distinction between possessing an, and doing harm with it, 35

doubts as to the existence of an, 65

effects of the, 7

eggs injured by the, 66

fowls affected by the, 61, 65, 130

having the, 45

horses liable to be affected by the, 61

hurt by the, 82, 97, 113, 161, 166

indirect advantage to those credited with the, 69

is involuntary, 36

is not always involuntary, 40

literary evidence of the, 3

locality of belief in the, 20

modes of expressing the, 17

no visible benefit to possessor, 68

origin of, 1, 7

or witchcraft, 114

people who possess the, may suffer loss, 7

possession of the, ascribed to females oftener than to males, 24

possessors of the, disliked, 24

possessors of the, to be charged to their face, 29, 30

possessors of the, unlucky to meet, 26, 27, 28

reputation of an, 28, 129

scientists, 216

serpent’s stone, a cure for the, 170

stirks more rarely affected than cows by the, 54

survival of belief in, 10, 140

symptoms, 51

their, 195

to be referred to active covetousness, 40

to cure the, 145

to keep away the, 44, 131

water, 157

women, believers in the, more than men, 23

young more liable to the influence of the, 45

Eye, 4, 17, 161, 203

diabolical, 18

envious, 70

had struck, 180

has fallen upon her, 34

my, 47

put his, in her, 83

shall not spare, 45

Facail, 94

airson eolas, 94

ceart, 94

Fachan, 171

Farmad na sul, 205

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 155

Fhear mhosach, 107

Fiam, 4

Fios, 6, 141

Fios-achd, 6

Fiosrachadh, or eolas, 98

Foal, 222

Folklorists, 2

Formula, 101, 145, 158, 173, 193, 208

Galar’s easlainnte, 144

Garbh sgeith, 19

Gearr fheidh, 94

Geas-arachd, 6

Germicide the, 133

Ghonadh, air a, 17

mo, 127

Ghuidhe i ris an fhear mhosach, 107

Gisreag, 149

Glance, envious, 5

Gold, silver, and copper, 163, 201

cure, 166

ring and silver coin, 166

or earring, 161

Gonadh, 146, 246

Green lint, 147

Greim, 94

Ground, must not touch the, 136, 137

emptied it on the, 156

Harm, 99, 222

Heifer, 59

Hendry, witch, 96

Holy Ghost, 176

Honeysuckle, 195

Horse collar, 146, 213

repeating its name three times, 189

shoe in the churn, 73

front o’t, 173

to sprinkle the water over the, 189

Humming, 53, 147

a symptom of the Evil Eye, 53

Hurtful eye, 33

Hurting and healing, united in one person, 99

Iadh-shlait, 195

Ill-will, 60

Incantation, 60, 97, 134, 144, 145, 146, 147

form of, 104

processes, 165

repeats an, 59, 164

Injured, 76, 86

by cronachadh, 151

by Evil Eye, 56, 183

the cow, 107

Injury, protection against, 44, 45, 114, 123

Iubhar, 119, 120

Ivy, 196

Juniper wood, 119, 136

Kicking, 56, 80

Knife, 216

Knowledge, 98

of healing, 98

the result of inquiry, 98

to cause injury, 99

Laochain, 196

Laogh, 13, 14

Lint, 147

Lips, 159

Living and the dead were wont to pass, 183

Look, a foal hurt by a mere, 80

a horse hurt by a mere, 80

cows hurt by a mere, 80, 81

Look, his would cronach it, 103

milk hurt by a mere, 81

Loup, 60

Lucky, 38

Magic eye, 204

fluid, 137

mirror, 114

thread, 201

Maistir, 209

Maistirich, 209

Malevolent, 98

Manure, 223

Marriage ring, a sixpence, and a penny, 162

Medicine bag, 141

Meise de mhin, 111

Melted lead, 198

Metal, 202

Milk, 90

a drink of, given to any one suspected of the Evil Eye, 122, 123

deterioration of, 90

taking a mouthful of, 90

Miscall, 117

Mislook, 5

Mordant, 144

Motive, 54

Muin, 208

Mulach an teine, 144

Nathrach, 94, 170

leigheas airson lot, 94

Neck, 141

bare, 157

Neonain, Bun ’us Barr, 94

Neutralise any bad influence, 129

Nicking the ear, 134

Nos Origines, 141

Obair, 144

Oidche Bhealtuinn, 132

Olc, 95

Operator, 145, 155, 156, 159

Overt act, 54

Paid, 109

Pail, half-crown piece in the, 154

Paper, put salt on a, 117

Pay, they do nothing without, 106

Payment, he did not want, 109

Pee, the milk has gone along with the, 57

Perform his charms by means of a bridle, 149

Performance, 97, 199

Peter, Paul, Mary, 176

Piseach, 6

Pisearachd, 6, 184, 185, 188

Piseog, 6

Pisreag, 6

Pokes, three wee, 188

Practice, 200

Practitioner of eolas, 23, 149, 158, 172

qualified, 52

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

Transmission of eolas, 102

Tre tsuilib na sochaiae, 4

Trinity, 104, 161, 182, 190, 201, 202

Turf, square of, 9

Ubag, 141

Udder, 77

Uisge a’ chronachaidh, 164, 202, 214

bonn airgeid air a chuir ann am bowl, 151

dhoirteadh air an t-airgiod, 157

fior, 182

Uncanny ways, 77

Urine as a preventative, 164, 209

sprinkling, 178

stale, 135, 139

strong, 138

Usual proviso, 153

Uvula, fallen, 148

Vet is no use, 91

Veterinary surgeon, 109

Vomit, 102

Water, 113, 124, 158, 159, 181, 186

absolutely putrid, 138

and copper coin, and a darning needle, 169

and stones, 167

and two threads, 148

as a diagnostic of cronachadh, 158

bottle of, 71, 152, 158

from a march over which the living and the dead pass, 182

from where the living and the dead pass, 161

must be poured on silver, 148

of silver, 154, 160

poured on three silver coins, 167

sprinkled on the child’s face, 115

Whisky, 198

Wish, 15

Witch, 6

Witch, burning, 137

cure, 221

doctor, 103, 221

Hendry, 96

of Endor, 96

reputed, 83

Witchcraft, 55, 129, 158, 215, 217, 221

Witchery, 6, 14

and the Evil Eye, 129, 223

protecting against, 135

resorted to as a cure, 55

white, 96

Wizard, a strong, 186

may have the Evil Eye, 56

red, 57

Wooden bicker, 159

Word, a, must not be spoken, 157

Words, 104, 145, 164, 172

good, 104, 145, 164

Yarn, ball of, 143

different colours of, 142

red, 144

three ply, 143

Yawn, 82

Yawning, an effect of the Evil Eye, 151

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