{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/pt2/pt208.htm","path":"neu/celt/pt2/pt208.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/pt2/pt208.htm","text":"From Alexander M'Donald, tenant, and others, Barra. July 1859.\nHERE was a woman in Baile Thangusdail, and she was out seeking a couple of calves; and the night and lateness caught her, and there came rain and tempest, and she was seeking shelter. She went to a knoll with the couple of calves, and she was striking a tether-peg into it. The knoll opened. She heard a gleegashing as if a pot-hook were clashing beside a pot. She took wonder, and she stopped striking the tether-peg. A woman put out her head and all above her middle, and she said, \"What business hast thou to be troubling this tulman in which I make my dwelling?\" \"I am taking care of this couple of calves, and I am but weak. Where shall I go with them?\" \"Thou shalt go with them to that breast down yonder. Thou wilt see a tuft of grass. If thy couple of calves eat that tuft of grass, thou wilt not be a day without a milk cow as long as thou art alive, because thou hast taken my counsel.\"\nAs she said, she never was without a milk cow after that, and she was alive fourscore and fifteen years after the night that was there.\n(Gaelic omitted)\n...\nWritten by Hector MacLean, from the dictation of a man in Barra.","title":"Popular Tales of the West Highlands Vol. II: XXIV. The Tu...","type":"page"}