[Redbook2:322-323][19831217:2015f]{The
Brahan Seer}[17th
December 1983]
19831217.2015
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Glancing
again through a pretty awful book called 'Predictions' – part of
the price paid to the Book Club for my Oxford English Dictionary –
I was 'struck' by the prophecy by* Coinneach Odhar for Scotland and
the deadly black rain, which when I bought the book in about 1980/81
seemed mystifying:
"The
day will come when the jaw-bone of the big sheep will put the plough
on the rafters; when sheep shall become so numerous that the bleating
of the one shall be heard by the other from Conchra in Lochalsh to
Bun-da-Loch in Kintail, they shall be at their height in price, and
henceforth will go back and deteriorate, until they disappear
altogether, and be so thoroughly forgotten that a man finding the
jaw-bone of a sheep in a cairn, will not recognise it, or be able to
tell what animal it belonged to. The ancient proprietors of the soil
shall give place to strange merchant proprietors, and the whole
Highlands will become one huge deer forest; the whole country will be
so utterly desolated and depopulated that the crow of a cock shall
not be heard north of Druim-Uachdair; the people will emigrate to
Islands now unknown, but which shall yet be discovered in the
boundless oceans, after which the deer and other wild animals in the
huge wilderness shall be exterminated and drowned by horrid black
rains. The people will then return and take undisturbed possession of
the lands of their ancestors."
*[attributed
to]
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