In the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh a handful of objects collected by Carmicahel are on display: a baptismal font, a stone font ...

Fr. George Rigg Folk cures taken down by Alexander Carmichael form not an inconsiderable part of his fieldwork notebooks. Book-ended betw...

Silver Water A well-known cure for any ailing cow was picked up by Alexander Carmichael from John Cameron (1805–1889) in Borve, Barra. Th...

Another short anecdote from Archibald Currie (1821–1896) from Iochdar, South Uist, collected at the same time, was one which concerns St Joh...

Curious folk cures were also one of the genres which greatly interested Alexander Carmichael. The following cure for black warts or foinneac...

In one of his very last fieldwork notebooks that are known to survive, Alexander Carmichael was still noting down charms, a genre that is ri...

Folk medicine and cures are important genres for any collector and Alexander Carmichael was no exception to this general observation as is q...