“Big Robin, big Robin, take a smoke, take a smoke, take a smoke.” “I have no smoke, I have no smoke.” “Buy, buy, buy.” “I have not a penny, I …
Animals
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There was a curious belief that the cats of the Isle of Man had a king of their own who lived as an ordinary house-cat during the day but at …
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And then there was the Miller’s Cat who seems to have had the power of human speech. By some mischance the Miller had put himself in the power of a …
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Ye horses all, who may pass by This spot where rest my bones, Behold my head, which once was high, Now bleaching ‘mongst these stones.I was a horse of note …
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There was once an old woman living in Laxey Valley that had a wonderful queer goat. White she was, with curving horns at her and amber eyes. There wasn’t another …
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The old fishermen of the Isle of Man have it to say that years and years ago the fish met to choose themselves a king for they had no deemster …
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A wedding with none of the bride’s relatives in attendance was called a ‘Crow’s Wedding’ and there is the following rhyme: The little wedding of the crow Went over the …
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From ‘A HISTORY OF THE ISLE OF MAN’ by Joseph Train (1844): A neighbour of mine who kept cattle, had his fields very much infested with this animal, by which …