The ancient legal penalty of Deodand, well known in England, by which an animal or object causing a death was confiscated and became the king’s property, was enforced in the …
June 2014
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Not so many years ago a farmer’s son in the parish of Andreas, was taken away by the Fairies and was lost for four years. One day, as his two …
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A narrow 13th century packhorse double-arched bridge paved with quartz cobbles spans the Silverburn immediately north of Rushen Abbey and adjacent to the mill race. Crossag is from ‘crosh veg’ …
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Lag-ny-Boirey (Manx for hollow of lamentation/botheration) is the site of a cluster of Bronze Age hut dwellings at Mull Hill. During excavations in 1896 a Bronze Age clay model of …
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Can you guess the name of the village? “A place where ladies love to go, A vowel add – neither ‘i’ nor ‘o’, And what we do in summer eat …
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Our land has fallen from her age of pride And put her old divinity aside; She is not now as in those storied days When a strange beauty lit familiar …
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This expression is applied to a friendly match-maker, introduced by the young man, to relate to the parents of the girl of his heart – in glowing terms – what …
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Thou little tailless cat with coat of jet, Whose amber eyes with ecstatic dew are wet, As on my lap thy paws beat even tread, “In-out, in-out” – as though …