Animals Archives - As Manx as the Hills

The Good People’s Fair

June 17, 2020 5.4K views

You must know that once in every hundred years the …

Animals in Manx Place-Names

February 17, 2020 6.2K views

• TARROO = a bull. Magher yn Tharroo (field of …

Hares & Witches & ”Rough Under the Foot”

November 24, 2019 5.5K views

It was commonly believed on the Isle of Man, as …

The White Cat

October 5, 2015 5.2K views

One night in the back-end of the year, when the …

The Manx Pony

August 18, 2015 4.6K views

A Descendant of the British Prehistoric Horse… “The Manx breed …

The Use of Dust in Magic

March 23, 2015 5K views

A hare, or rather a Witch in the shape of …

More Manx Folklore on Cats

March 22, 2015 4.9K views

More Manx folklore on cats… • I have heard of …

Jimmy Squarefoot

August 14, 2014 6.5K views

At the bottom of the Ballagilbert Glen on the Isle …

Boar Fragment from a Manx Cross

August 14, 2014 5.5K views

Small fragment of cross-slab of the late 10th century, illustrating …

Manx Nursery Tale – The Story of the Little Kid

July 30, 2014 4.6K views

There was once a little, little man, and a little, …

Pigs and the Moon

July 30, 2014 3.3K views

In the Animal Folklore of the Isle of Man there …

The Fairy Saddle

July 30, 2014 4.5K views

Manx Fairies seem to have been especially fond of the …

The Devil’s Den

July 30, 2014 2.6K views

About a league and a half from Barrule, there is …

Goats in Isle of Man Folklore

July 18, 2014 2.3K views

The practice of letting a goat accompany flocks and herds …

The Hare

July 4, 2014 2.1K views

The animal most intimately allied with magic in the Isle …

The People of Colby…

June 30, 2014 1.6K views

Tradition states that before there were any attorneys, the people …

The Cormorant and The Bat

June 30, 2014 2K views

There was a time in the olden days when the …

Manx Superstition

June 30, 2014 2.4K views

When the robin will not sing in churchyard trees, the …

Deodand

June 30, 2014 1.8K views

The ancient legal penalty of Deodand, well known in England, …

To a Manx Kitten

June 22, 2014 1.7K views

Thou little tailless cat with coat of jet, Whose amber …

The First Bee

June 20, 2014 3.1K views

The old fishermen thought it very lucky to catch the …

Horses Seeing Fairies

June 15, 2014 2K views

One day this winter we had no bread for tea …

The Robin’s First Lesson

June 15, 2014 1.6K views

I think it was in the beginning of September that …

Isle of Kids?

June 14, 2014 1.6K views

I have heard an old story that long ago there …

Song of the Thrush

June 14, 2014 1.7K views

“Big Robin, big Robin, take a smoke, take a smoke, …

The King of the Cats

June 14, 2014 1.7K views

There was a curious belief that the cats of the …

The Wisest Living Creature

June 14, 2014 1.9K views

And then there was the Miller’s Cat who seems to …

Lament of the Old Horse’s Ghost

June 13, 2014 1.8K views

Ye horses all, who may pass by This spot where …

The Wonderful Goat of Laxey

June 13, 2014 1.9K views

There was once an old woman living in Laxey Valley …

How the Herring Became ‘King of the Sea’

June 13, 2014 2.2K views

The old fishermen of the Isle of Man have it …

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