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15. So air Mam na Mororaig-.
16. So air Mam Chloiche gile.
t So air a Mham Mhor Dhiurach, &c.
17. So air Mam na Doire Uaine [Doire is Feminine in
Colonsay].
18. So air Mam na Doire Liath (I'eith).
19. So air Mam Arichdhuairich [so pronounced by
reciter. Airidh Dhiiairidh in Mull is suggested].
20. So air Mam Choire-na-h-eirea'a [Jura].
21. So air Mam Ghribinn [Mull].
22. So air Mam Aisginis [S. Uist ?].
23. So air Mam Chlachaig [Mull].
24. So air Mam Choire Chriostal.
f- So air a Mham Mhor Dhiurach, &c.
Some of you may be able to identify the locality of
several of these Mavis.
Macneill, firmly believes in the efficacy of his method
of curing the Mam ; and he occasionally puts his skill to
the test in Colonsay.
An Arisaig man informed me that his father used to
" apportion" the Main, and was always successful in effecting
a cure. " I never saw his method fail," said my
informant ;
" and I have often seen the swelling burst
during the operation with the hatchet !"
Donald Maceachan, an old cottar in South Morar, still
professes that he can cure such swellings as I have
described. Recently I met him, and he was good enough
to describe his method. He learned the art in his youth,
from an old man, and has practised it from time to time
ever since. Shortly before my interview with him, he had
cured a young man who had a Ma^n on the thigh am bac
na sleisde—and that so speedily that on the day after the
operation no trace of the swelling was left
In Arisaig and Morar the number of Mams mentioned
is nine, and '^ot twenty-four, as in Colonsay. There is no
reference to the Great Mam of Jura, to which so much
importance is attached in the Colonsay formula. All the
and Maceachan, in
Mavis mentioned are in Knoydart ;
order to convince me of the accuracy of his list, stated that
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