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The spinning wheel was indispensable to the people of its day; just as …

Many a long year ago there was a young farmer of the name …

The Manx people in former times held a belief, of which a memory …

Taken from Peel City Guardian 7 Jan 1922: The quaint and interesting information …

As in many other parts of the British isles, a considerable proportion of …

I mind me brother’s wife tellin’ me that quhen she was a lump …

There was once a little fairy pig that lived in the hills beyond …

The acquisition of Harry Kelly’s cottage in 1938 to initiate the Cregneish folk …

The Nikkesen’s Pool, more often called simply “the Nikkesen,” is in the Awin …

A Descendant of the British Prehistoric Horse… “The Manx breed (of horses) are …

Suggane is the rope made of the twisted straw of wheat, barley, oats …

Superstitious as were the Manxmen whose occupations were on land, they were surpassed …

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