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Cirein-cròin

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Ceirean,^[1] Cirein-cròin^[1] or cionarain-crò^[2] was a large sea monster in Scottish Gaelic folklore. An old saying claims that it was so large that it fed on seven whales: Local folklores say this huge animal can disguise himself as a small, silver fish when fisherman come in contact with it.^[3] Other accounts state the reason for the disguise was to attract its next meal; when the fisherman would catch it in its small silver fish form, once aboard it changed back to the monster and ate him.^[4]

Gaelic	Translation	Notes
Seachd sgadain, sath bradain;	Seven herrings, a salmon's fill;
Seachd bradain, sath ròin;	Seven salmon, a seal's fill;
Seachd ròin, sath mial-mòr-mara	Seven seals, a large whale's fill	(Mial here is archaic; killer whales eat seals, but baleen whales do not.)
Seachd mial, sath Cirein-cròin	Seven whales, a cirein-cròin's fill

^[5]

According to Forbes,

"[In another saying] cionarain-cro here is substituted, as Avill be seen, for the cirein-croin in the former saving, and ranks second to the "great sea

animal."^[2]

Forbes identifies the creature as a large sea serpent,^[6] but this is arguable. He also proposes it as a dinosaur -

"It is not known what this monster animal was, though it may well have been one of these "Giant fish-destroyers," so ably, inler-alia, described by Dr Carmichael M'Intosh, which waged war in sea and on land against all and sundry as well as against each other, viz., the gigantic Deinosaurs,[sic] some of which, notably the Atlantosaurus, reached to one hundred feet in length with a height of thirty feet, and proportionately awful of aspect."^[7]

References

Forbes, Alexander Gaelic names of beasts (mammalia), birds, fishes, insects, reptiles, etc. (1905); available [https://archive.org/stream/gaelicnamesofbea00forbuoft/gaelicnamesofbea00forbuoft_djvu.txt here]
{{Dwelly}} (Cirein-cròin, ceirean)

1. ^¹Forbes p7; Dwelly
2. ^¹Forbes, p385
3. ^http://foxiv-pirates.blogspot.com/2009/01/cirein-crin.html
4. ^http://foxiv-pirates.blogspot.com/
5. ^Forbes, pp61, 226, 384, 385; Dwelly
6. ^Forbes, p384
7. ^Forbes, p61

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