“With lips of rosy hue, Dipp’d five times over in ambrosial dew, She led them to their destruction.”~ Old Poet. Long hundreds of years ago there was a witch in …
Fairy Tales
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(Little Manannan, son of Leir) Little Manannan was the son of Leirr, he was the first that ever had her; but as I can best conceive, he himself was a …
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There was a time in the olden days when the cormorant and the bat took counsel together to do something for the poor as they had compassion on them, and …
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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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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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In the old days Culain, the smith of the gods, was living in the Isle of Man. It was the time when Conchubar was at the court of the King …
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When Paie Cregeen married Gorry Karran in Rushen Church she thought she was the happiest girl in the Isle of Man. Gorry was one of the crew of ‘The Morning …