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INCANTATIONS 155
THE WICKED WHO WOULD ME HARM
Chisholm had none of the swartliy skin and far-away look of the ordinary gypsy.
But she had the gypsy habits and the gypsy hinguage, variously called 'Cant,'
'Shelta/ 'Romany/ with rich fluent Gaelic and English. She had many curious
spells, runes, and hymns, that would have enriched Gaelic literature, and many rare
words and phrases and expressions that would have improved the Gaelic dictionary.
The wicked who would do me harm
May he take the [throat] disease, [glii<-" gl"c
Globularly, spirally, circularly,
Fluxy, pellety, horny-grim.
Be it harder than the stone.
Be it blacker than the coal.
Be it swifter than the duck.
Be it heavier than the lead.
Be it fiercer, fiercer, sharper, harsher, more malignant.
Than the hard, wound-quivering holly.
Be it sourer than the sained, lustrous, bitter, salt salt,
Seven seven times.
Oscillating thither.
Undulating hither.
Staggering downwards,
Floundering upwards,

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Volume 2
DescriptionVolume 2. Uibe (incantations) Measgain (miscellaneous) Notes. Names of the reciters of the poems.
ShelfmarkBlair.62
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Carmina gadelica
Description"... hymns and incantations with illustrative notes on words, rites, and customs, dying and obsolete / orally collected in the Highlands and islands of Scotland and translated into English, by Alexander Carmichael." [Edinburgh] : Printed for the author, 1900 (by T. and A. Constable) Two volumes. 300 copies printed. Gaelic and English on opposite pages.
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DescriptionA selection of books from a collection of more than 500 titles, mostly on religious and literary topics. Also includes some material dealing with other Celtic languages and societies. Collection created towards the end of the 19th century by Lady Evelyn Stewart Murray.
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