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NEFA
1994.060.01 Transcription
P: Marion Johnstone
T: The water skelpie
S: MJ's grandmother used to warn them that the water skelpie
would get them if they went down to the water at night.
NEFA
1994.060.02 Transcription
P: Marion Johnstone
T: The Betty of Malmo
FL: Twas on a dark and stormy night when the Betty o Malmo hove
in sight
S: Poem about a shipwreck in Gardenstown in 1893.
NEFA
1994.060.03 Transcription
P: Marion Johnstone
T: Hogmanay and Halloween
S: They did not dress up an New Year, but at Halloween.
NEFA
1994.060.04 Transcription
P: Marion Johnstone
T:
Rise Up Guid Wife
FL: Rise up guid wife an shak yer feathers
S: 11 line traditional rhyme recited by first footers at Hogmanay.
NEFA
1994.060.05 Transcription
P: Marion Johnstone
T: Christmas
S: They did not celebrate Christmas much in MJ's youth. Even
presents were kept for Hogmanay. They used to go out singing on
Aul Eel [Old Yule], January 5. You would go to someone's door and
shout 'Eel', and you would get an Eel penny. They would love to
get sweeties.
NEFA
1994.060.06 Transcription
P: Marion Johnstone
T: About MJ's poem, To Davie
S: MJ's uncle Davie would go south to the fishing and bring
home rock for her. She made the poem for him.
NEFA
1994.060.07 Transcription
P: Marion Johnstone
T: To Davie, Mony's the Time
FL: Mony's the time we wannert the braes in primroses jist in
thicks
S: Made about four or five years ago.
NEFA
1994.060.08 Transcription
P: Marion Johnstone
T: Making songs
S: Sometimes the poems just pour out.
NEFA
1994.060.09 Transcription
P: Jock Duncan
T: Biographical information
S: Born at Gellybrae, New Deer. Background details on family.
Story about snowstorms past.
NEFA
1994.060.10 Transcription
P: Jock Duncan
T: Father
S: Stories about JD's father's strength, thrashing and loading
bags of grain.
NEFA
1994.060.11 Transcription
P: Jock Duncan
T: Moving to Faddenhill
S: The family moves. Discussion of siblings. JD lived though
hard times, but farmers survived it much better than most. Discussion
of food and hunting.
NEFA
1994.060.12 Transcription
P: Jock Duncan
T: Choir and music in the district
S: Mention of fiddlers, singers (e.g. Charlie Duncan) and other
musicians. Local functions were a mixture of songs, stories and
music.
NEFA
1994.060.13 Transcription
P:
Jock Duncan
T: Gramophone
S: Used to be a gramophone that circulated, Kemp, Morris,
etc recordings. Discussion of local melodion/accordion players.
Met Curly McKay in the 50s. Travellers coming door to door in New
Deer.
NEFA
1994.060.14 Transcription
P: Jock Duncan
T: Davie Stewart and others
S: Descriptions of Davie Stewart, Robin Stewart and other
stories. Piping was very popular among Travellers.
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