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Assoc for Scottish Literature on Nostr: Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist Halloween Ethnomusicologist, photographer, ...

Oidhche Shamhna – a South Uist Halloween

Ethnomusicologist, photographer, folklorist, & scholar Margaret Fay Shaw (1903–2004) recorded a traditional Hebridean Halloween on South Uist in the 1930s, in photographs & on film

—via the National Trust for Scotland

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/oidhche-shamhna-a-south-uist-halloween

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