Below is an interesting ritual from a 1938 publication (privately published) by Manx author W. Walter Gill. “From a Southside source, anonymous by desire, I learn that a woman who …
June 15, 2014
-
-
This poem is about Manx Folklorist William Cashen who was custodian/guardian of Peel Castle and who died whilst on duty there in 1912. The old man ceased and in the …
-
The man that was telling this story said he knew the house and the young men as well, and that the house was haunted by the fairies. There was one …
-
Brushing the dust at the head of four (cross) ways, and putting the dust over man, or beast, was thought to take away the evil eye. I have heard people …
-
Fairies are very light and I suppose the strong winds have blown them away, as they are not allowed to come into the houses in stormy weather as they used …
-
One day this winter we had no bread for tea at Orry’s Dale. On inquiring the reason the next time the baker’s cart came, the boy who drove it said …
-
When a man was out of his senses, he was sometimes carried out in a boat, and a rope was put about his neck, and then he was thrown out …
-
I think it was in the beginning of September that I was working in the garden, when a robin began to sing on the top of a hedge close by. …