Crossword-Solution: RADH 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Strongly wishing is apt to make one’s _tàradh_ be heard at the place where he wishes to be, and if the person whose spectre is seen be spoken to the apparition disappears; but in general the _taibhs_ is independent of all thought, or action, or emotion of the person whom it represents.

The sound is only the _tàradh_ of an absent friend, storm-tossed or wayworn, and wishing he were at home.

The _tàradh_ may be that of a complete stranger, who is not thinking of, and perhaps does not even know the place to which his _tàradh_ has come.

When a shepherd, for instance, from another part of the country, is to come to a place, his likeness, phantom, or _tàradh_, is seen perhaps years beforehand on the hills he is afterwards so frequently to traverse.

Tar was put on their tails and ears, charms (_òradh_) were said at their udders, red and blue threads were put on their tails, and various observances were gone through with balls of hair (_rolag_), plants, fire about the earthenware pipkins (_crogain_) in which milk or butter was to be put, etc.