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Evil Eye in the Western Highlands · Robert Craig Maclagan — chapter 42 of 45 · ~154 words · public domain

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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

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