Between Bow Veg and Glen Wither, on the coast north of The Sound, is a place called Lhiondaig Phollinag, or the Mermaids’ Green or Garden, and the tradition is that…
It was commonly believed on the Isle of Man, as in many other places, that a witch could take the form of a hare and stories of hares turning into…
The bulk of our place-names according to Marstrander (Norwegian linguist and Prof. of Celtic Studies in Oslo) belong to the period subsequent to Norse times. This raises a debatable point;…
This dramatic oil painting, ‘The Wreck of the St George‘ illustrates a most epic rescue at sea. On Friday November 19, 1830, under the command of Lieutenant John Tudor R.N.,…
In the smuggling days of old, one of the Radcliffes of Gordon in Patrick, the heir, was engaged in the trade. In one of his journeys to Ireland he married…
On the Isle of Man every ditch had to be full of rain or snow on St Bridget’s Day so that the old Caillagh, or hag, could not gather brasnags…
A lovely scene at Maughold with a traditional Manx thatched cottage and perhaps a mucklagh giark (hen house) to the side as some hens are pecking away at the ground.…
The transition in the Viking world of pagan beliefs to the final embrace of Christianity is depicted on this stone. The Vikings brought pagan religion to shores already believing in…
There was once a Buggane living at The Smelt that was a terrible annoyance. He’d make himself as big as a house or small as a black beetle. One time…
Enter Cutlar Mac Culloch, a powerful rover from Galloway who made repeated excursions into the northern parts of the Isle of Man around 1507. He would carry off all that…
This is said to be the bitterest curse in the Manx language: “The stone of the church in the corner of thy house” (Clagh ny killagh ayns corneil dty hie).…
