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Gaelic Incantahons. 437
A more elaborate version of the Eolas is given by me
in Vol. VIII. of the Gaelic Society's Transactions. It is
as follows :
Translated
—
An t-Eolas a rinn Calum-Cille
Dh' aona bho na caill-ch ;
Bha cas Chalum-Chille 's a' churachan,
'S a chas eil' air tir :
—
— —
A thairbhein, a thainig thar chuan
'S o bhun na talmhainn fada thall
Air mhial, air bhalg,
Air ghalar dearg,
A lughdachadh do bhuilg ;
'S a mharbhadh do mhial,
A mharbhadh fiolan fionn,
A mharbhadh fiolan donn,
A mharbhadh biast do leann,
A mharbhadh an tairbhein.
Gu'm faigh thu leasachadh
Aghachain, tog do cheann.
—
The charm that Columba wrought
For the old wife's only cow ;
Columba's one foot was in the corracle
And the other on land :
Thou tairbhean, that earnest over sea
And from the foundations of the earth far beyond ;
Against worm (louse), against swelling,
Against the red disease ;
To reduce thy swelling.
And to kill thy worm ;
To kill the white nescock,
To kill the brown nescock.
To kill the worm in thy bile,
To kill the tairbJiean.
May thou get relief;
Heifer, raise up thine head.
Sealmachas.
The following Eolas is for Sealmachas. Macalpine, in
the list of Orras already given, calls it ''Seamlachas." When
a cow lost her calf, she refused to give her milk, or allow
the calf of another cow to suck her. This Orra was said