IDNO

P.9669.ACH1

Description

On Catalogue Card: Corn maiden and old woman.

Documentary photograph of a ‘Cailleach’, a Scottish and Irish divine hag, on the left; and a ‘Mayhdean Bhuama’, a celtic corn maiden on the right. [JD 28/10/2008]

Place

Europe British Isles; ?United Kingdom; ?Ireland; ?Scotland; ?Northern Ireland; ?Welsh

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

Haddon, Alfred Cort

Date

Collection Name

Mounted Haddon Collection

Source

Format

Print Black & White Mounted

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Place: The Place field was previously recorded as being “Europe; ?England”, but the doll is labelled ‘Cailleach’, which is a Scottish and Irish ‘divine hag’. The Place field has been amended accordingly. [JD 28/10/2008]

Bibliography Reference: 'Proceedings at Meeting of Wednesday, April 24, 1895', In Folklore, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Sep., 1895), pp. 221-224 (Taylor & Francis, Ltd. on behalf of Folklore Enterprises, Ltd), pp.222-223 is the following entry:
"Professor Haddon then delivered a lecture entitled "Photography and Folklore," which was illustrated by fifty lantern slides.
Professor Haddon explained that the object of his exhibition was to show that most of the aspects of folklore were easily illustrated, and thus the facts could be made to appeal to the eye as well as to the ear, and by this means interest might be more generally awakened. He also suggested that amateur photographers, and especially the numerous local photographic societies, should photograph all objects and customs of folklore interest in their neighbourhood, and the Society should make a collection of such photographs. Not only would facts be recorded, but new workers would be pressed into the service of our science.
The following slides were exhibited:-
Narrators of Folklore: Michael McManus, aged I4 (L. L. Duncan, F.L., iv. p.177.)
Mziutes of Meeting April 24
The following were the slides exhibited:-
Living Illustrations of Folklore: Baubi Urquhart, Shetland, the great-great-granddaughter of a seal-woman; Inishmaan women (Proc. R. I. A., 1893, p. 830); Aran boys in petticoats (l.c., p. 826).
Folklore and Dwellings: A Kerry cottage with whitewash round the door and windows to keep away the spirits of recently deceased persons; Interior of an Antrim farm kitchen: "Beside the Fire."
Scenery and Folklore: Lough Bofin (C. R. Browne, P. R. I. A., 1894, p. 360); Boulders at Eararna (P. R. I. A., 1893, p. 818).
Folklore of Trees: Fairy thorn at Holywood, Belfast; St. Sourney's thorn, Aran (P. R. I. A., I893, p. 830); St. Croghans's sacred Ash, Kenmare River.
Folklore of Wells: Tuber Carna; St. Columb Kill's Well; St. Sourney's font; St. Eany's altar and well; Well of the Four Comely Ones; Contents of the latter well (all in Aranmore, P. R. I. A., I893, pp. 8I8-822); Holy well of Tubbernaltha, Sligo; St. Kevin's Well, co. Dublin.
Folklore of Cromleachs, &c.: Diarmud and Grania's bed, Aranmore; Cromleach at Ballymascanlon (three stones thrown on top, married within a year); "Kissing Stone," cromlech at Carrow- more, Sligo; Maeshowe, Orkney.
Folklore of Standing Stones: Holed stone, Doagh, co. Antrim (lovers put fingers through hole and plight their troth); holed stone in Mainistir, Aranmore; holed stone in men's cemetery, Inismurray (" Survey of Ant. remains in Inismurray," Wake- man, I893, p. 75); holy stone on a standing stone in ancient churchyard at Mevagh, N.W. Donegal.
Folklore of Altars and Crosses. St. Columb Kill's altar and cross, Aranmore; Cloca-breaca, altar and cursing stones, Inismurray (Wakeman, p. 59); Petting stone, Holy I., Northumberland.
Folk Ceremonies: "Band-beggars," co. Leitrim (L. L. Duncan, F.-L..,1894, pp.188); Wedding straw-mask, co. Mayo (F.-L., 1893, p.123; "Illust. Archaeologisgt," i. 1893, p. 205); Christmas Rhymers in Belfast.
Children's' Games: "Lords of Spain"; "Green Gravel"; "Round about the Punch-bowl"; co. Down (Clara M. Patterson, Belfast Nat. Field Club Ann. Rept., 1893-94, p. 48; Mrs Gomme's traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1894, p. 170).
Miscellaneous Folklore Objects: Straw-crosses for protection and good-luck, co., Donegal (W.H Patterson, Illust. Arch., ii., 1894, p. 103). The following slides illustrate Dr. Maclagan's donation to the Society (ante, pp. 144, seqq); Toothache and Love charms; Dream charms; Diving bones; Corn-maidens; Divination by tying knots; Evil-eye charm; Corpchre.
At the conclusion of Professor Haddon's lecture a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to him." [Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1252992, JD 13/11/2024]

This catalogue record has been updated with the support of the Getty Grant Program Two. [Jocelyne Dudding 28/10/2008]