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256:, but Gregorson Campbell persisted in enthusiastically adding to his collection throughout the late 1800s. He was concerned that the intolerance shown by some of his fellow collectors towards the illiterate Gaelic-speaking storytellers and those who believed in the myths would result in the loss of a valuable resource, as he regarded the narrators as having "powers of mind of a highest order".
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collection were included in the next three volumes of the review. The Gaelic
Society of Inverness published some of the tales, also given in Gaelic with an English translation, from 1888 until 1892. The first of these in 1888, "Sir Olave O'Corn", also involved a King of Ireland and included some explanatory notes from Gregorson Campbell.
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Gregorson
Campbell had his own style of collating legends, meticulously transcribing the stories as dictated by the individual storytellers, and only rarely interspersing tales with his own comments. Christian ministers in Scotland differed in their attitudes towards the traditional beliefs and myths
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in March 1881. Reproduced in Gaelic and translated on the following pages in
English, it was entitled "How the great Tuairisgeul was put to death" and told how the son of the King of Ireland went to a hunting hill and sought the answer to the death of the Great Tuairisgeul. Further legends from his
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in early 1861, objections were initially raised by some members of the Tiree congregation who found
Gregorson Campbell's sermons boring, uninspiring and "devoid of fervour". The Presbytery upheld two of the three main complaints, but an appeal was made to the
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Several of the anecdotes he amassed were published in magazines and, just before his death, work began on collating the first of four compendiums of the tales; three were published a few years after his death. He was fluent in several languages, including
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during the 1760s. Gregorson
Campbell continued to build on the collection he started during his period of recuperation around 1858, preserving the traditional tales as quoted at the time. The folklorist
157:, or fairy washerwoman as Gregorson Campbell defined it, had cast a spell on his father's ancestors proclaiming "they shall grow like the rush and wither like the fern". The family moved to
244:, and their letters discuss the variations in the folk tales, with Campbell of Islay stating: "I have about 16 versions of one story in Gaelic, and no two have the same name."
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folklorists" and Sophia
Kingshill, author and folklorist, felt his writing was "vivid and engaging". Contemporary praise was not entirely universal; an anonymous review of
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Interest in mythology and folklore gained momentum in the last quarter of the 19th century, probably fuelled by the contentious debates surrounding the authenticity of the
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in 1858 but was unable to commence work as a clergyman at that time owing to ill health. His recuperation was spent beginning his collection of folklore stories.
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were two other journals that published some of his folklore. Some of these were reprinted in the first compendium of
Gregorson Campbell's collection,
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The Gaelic
Otherworld: Superstitions of the Highlands and the Islands and Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland
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Gregorson Campbell's education until he was ten years old. He then attended a higher school in Glasgow before moving on to the
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in the mid-1850s. Ill health had prevented him taking up employment as a Minister when he was initially approved to preach by the
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Davis, Deborah (1992). "Contexts of Ambivalence: The Folkloristic Activities of Nineteenth Century Scottish Highland Ministers".
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at Kingairloch, Argyll in 1836, the fourth child and second son of Helen MacGregor and Captain Campbell, an officer for the ship
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Traditional tales collected by Gregorson Campbell were first published in the inaugural edition of the quarterly periodical the
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