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25 December

Folklore from the old calendars

Yule and Pasch in the isles No longer kept Inner Hebrides, Inverness-shireProtestants on many of the Hebridean islands still kept Yule and Pasch, Christmas and Easter, as feasts.

28 December, not tied to the day

Folklore from the old calendars

Charming away the milk Lore and belief Highlands, Inner Hebrides, Outer HebridesMartin found it a received opinion in the Western Isles and the neighbouring mainland that a woman could, by a charm, draw the increase of her neighbour's cow's milk to herself.
Wind stones of the Western Isles No longer kept Inner Hebrides, Outer HebridesMartin described a chapel of St Columba on the isle of Fladda-Chuan with a round blue stone on its altar that was always moist.

31 December

Folklore from the old calendars

The man in the cow’s hide at the laird’s hall No longer kept Inner Hebrides, Outer HebridesOn New Year's Eve in the Hebrides one man put on a cow's hide and ran round the laird's house while the others beat the hide with sticks.

1 May

Folklore from the old calendars

Betwixt two Beltein fires Lore and belief Highlands, Inner Hebrides, Inverness-shireA Highland saying held that someone caught between two cunning people was betwixt two Beltein fires.

24 September

Folklore from the old calendars

The Cripple Goat No longer kept Inner HebridesOn Skye the farmer who finished his harvest first sent the last handful he had cut to the next farmer still at work, calling it the cripple goat.

29 September

Folklore from the old calendars

Horses round the Hill of Angels on Iona No longer kept Argyll, Inner HebridesOn the feast of St Michael the people of Iona brought their horses to a small stone circle on the Hill of Angels and raced them round it.
St Michael’s Bannock No longer kept Inner Hebrides, Outer HebridesMartin's account of the Western Isles, quoted by Hone, says the islanders kept St Michael's Day with a cavalcade in each parish, and at Kilbar with a turn round the church.
The Michaelmas cavalcade on Canna No longer kept Inner Hebrides, Inverness-shireEvery man on Canna rode out at Michaelmas on an unsaddled horse with a girl or his neighbour's wife behind him, and rode back and forth between the village and a cross.

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