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teine-éiginn

sm Fire by friction, forced fire or fire of necessity. The teine-éiginn was considered an antidote against the plague and murrain and all infectious diseases among cattle. Dr. Martin says all the fires in the parish were extinguished and 81 married men, being deemed the proper number for effecting this purpose, took two planks of wood and nine of them were employed by turns, who by their repeated efforts, rubbed the planks against each other, till the heat thereof produced fire and from this forced fire each family was supplied with a new fire. No sooner was the fire kindled than a pot filled with water was put thereon, which was afterwards sprinkled on people who had the plague or on cattle that had the murrain, and this process was said to be followed invariably by success — **. A term applied to fire produced by friction — in olden times a means employed to check evils arising from being bewitched. If a household suffered loss such as indicated being under evil influence, all fires in the district between two running streams were extinguished on a set day. Then a spinning-wheel was put in motion and kept going furiously until the spindle became heated. Tinder or tow was applied to the hot spindle, fire was thus procured and distributed to all households affected by evil influences. Within the memory of persons still living, fire was thus procured to check witchcraft in a township in Uist where some sickness, supposed to be evil eye, carried off some cows and sheep. It is odd that neither cow nor sheep died after, possibly the epidemic had exhausted itself — DC. Last made in N. Uist about 1829, in Arran about 1820, in Helmsdale about 1818 and in Reay about 1830 — AC.

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