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Posted By: keberoxu
04-Nov-21 - 08:51 PM
Thread Name: William Sharp a/k/a 'Fiona Macleod'
Subject: RE: William Sharp a/k/a 'Fiona Macleod'
A little more digging, and success in uncovering the source from which William Sharp / Fiona Macleod 's book Pharais quoted the rune in the post before this one.
In fact, Sharp / Macleod cheerfully copied the prayer, both in the original Gaelic and its English translation, from a different presentation. And as the bibliography shows, it predates Pharais.
Exactly as printed in the 1894 edition of Sharp / Macleod, these first appeared in
Chapter 29, under the sub-heading, "How an old Woman supposed to possess the Evil Eye escaped a cruel death", page 176, in Nether Lochaber: the Natural History, Legends, and Folklore of the West Highlands, by the Rev. Alexander Stewart, F.S.A. Scot., Edinburgh: William Paterson, 1883.