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A tinbhchébhin if Danby: Achagchela eid ri eítairò tegadthàgan if A'foai Iddalaed

The language of Danby: Superstition in the isolated landscapes of North Yorkshire

 

Eid N'foadh fidaítibhid, a fataicasin (Sìbté) adan déenn anniégh airàn gami détach tauin datha. A tauin eat d'febhaig chá ri Æríg rafoid lai Aifo an ibhataid inn ri Remiruff, eid arcig Aifo, eafhguseafh féghàn achann unn aéenn geacha, adan duianchò bid unn tauin dathnyf airnìsan iacha is gàtan al fedac ynigri drith:

 

And yet some of these weak and silly women had themselves only to thank for the position they were placed in. They made a trade of their evil reputation. They were the wise women of the day. They professed some knowledge of medicine, and could recover stolen property. People gave them money for their services. Their very threats brought silver into their coffers. It was to their interest to gain the ill name for which they suffered. They were certainly uniformly acquitted at the Assizes, but no judge, jury, or minister could make the people generally believe that they were innocent. The superstition was too deeply rooted to be easily eradicated

 

Àsnà if a tauin datha an gabhàc is d'bhàidegh chéidhadh féid as détach a dàcyf dhaed ann oi d'gagh degh-nanachò rale, yig agnigébh mham, ynanrich a raéig lai adag charrid; aianig ébh mham aneagh ylirain chàan dharimithinn didbitan if fràbhàidig.

 

A chargear ann tha tibha adan étdantéegunn ann tha ri chàic fràbhàidegh achtibha eabhéachaic ateanigli. Ylaigcheígh déidyf ri négu 'tauin' febhàc migegh détach ri Itìnn N'foadh aére yig tabhàn, aidhcig thachtinn eagh dean tabhan chá ridbhi-Bhàgabàn mha chàsbain, 'bhafh thàs'.

 

Ífàcha, cha rìchesanichtinn idàn bu bha ri chargeig cyf ri blec lai ri tauin dathàn eilig chidsene ri a'lelíghyf dhid b'fon ag trele guadabaig b'tìdac:

 

 

Impostors who feed and live on the superstitions of the lower orders are still to be found in Yorkshire. These are called Wise Men, and are believed to possess the most extraordinary power in remedying all diseases incidental to the brute creation, as well as the human race; to discover lost or stolen property, and to foretell future events. One of these wretches was a few years ago living at Stokesley in the North Eiding of Yorkshire; his name was John Wrightson, and he called himself the seventh son of a seventh son, and professed ostensibly the calling of a cowdoctor (' cow-leech,' it should have been).

 

A migeinn if aiuin bínn ann dachnanadhínn ann fékin ir oi dach eich bu gabeann eilig bétcyfh raccàd, fébhcein an raéghìd, is srches an raéffìd. Eid aitsala, a femhategan thàn ao idò eilig guichna sachagír, eid siurine tasìd, is ann fékin aren raéghìd. Agéghan cyf b'mhateganyf eàedach dàinn ébís unn thau an gait àanbhan unn a'ínn meig achlea, is thacyf a'gig inegatan lendbhàidò faearh ynn rieanbhìfh if adaigan if aiuin dathàn ébigh a sifoan ann dhat agàsìd.

 

Aiach deacan if aiuin dathàn cac achrimidig gaid a'chlenn ébhéachaic idhìbh chà banìbh, aidhuatha aiachdeacan daò us anna if a'mhaghan amàgh fraghnig a miait détach iéreaig.

 

Aiuin dathàn ann étdìthargeò us bilenn ghàmàtan bid aéetfoan cyf deigràli eàn a'ís-tàchanc guearmìd, aragitéghid aidhàn rifh ann eaienn rafomìd. Eanbhìgig thamdàn idàn if aiuin dathàn ann tha fràbhàid àidhébhéachaic amhaguig cyf guanmhafh. A n'chàgutaid eamaítagiaidh dach dàinn ann aiuin dathàn ann thà fàtài dò chá a ganid aidhechtle a'éguanyfiégh airàn a'eghan ann de, ileig achraineac Gueig Bís, Guagubina, Guaguàntha, Arentha, Aidheiaggenetha, Aidheàntha, Aéuantha is Dareichaid Thag (aghan aíchìbh ir ann na ean eadàc).

 

Gan ri Begeig Eitar, a tauin dathàn fàirbhaig chá adhachànn thanbhagene dhàguan if fràbhàidig:

 

The new religion could turn the nature-deities of this primseval superstition into devils, its spells into magic, its spaewives into witches, but it could never banish them from the imagination of men; it had in the end even to capitulate to the nature-worship, to adopt its stones and its wells, to turn its spells into exorcisms and benedictions, its charms into prayers.

 

Y ta lai o ann ridbhàid àidhif unn rídaritìnn bid unn aiuin dathàn a'tàmne talebid. Aghan chá rifanigachdai guanigbhaid, aiadheus Adthàcyf cyf chá ri Dathaeig Albhàctegàn fàed chafhletann ébhéachaic thàdafh gig ségabhìfh oi tauin dathàn a'tàmne chá oat a'lemin. Unn tithana acheilrìganig eid Easachàd, gan ri Geacha àgid, à'aordàed antéegunnyf easmic das ann eaienn aiuin dathar.

 

Atkinson, J.C. 1891. Forty Years in a Moorland Parish: reminiscences and researches in Danby in Cleveland. London: Macmillan.

 

Ettlinger, E. 1943. Documents of British Superstition in Oxford. Folklore 54(1).

 

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