Fairy World Archives - As Manx as the Hills

Ned Quayle’s Story of the Fairy Pig

December 1, 2023 2.1K views

When I was a little boy, we lived over by …

The Grandmother

March 4, 2021 5.5K views

Most precious of all things in my childhood is the …

Thie Ferrishyn – The Fairies’ House

July 2, 2020 5.6K views

Thie Ferrishyn was the name sometimes given to what was …

The Good People’s Fair

June 17, 2020 5.2K views

You must know that once in every hundred years the …

The Phynodderee

February 8, 2020 6.4K views

Phynodderee/Fenodyree is sometimes used as a proper name and sometimes …

The Fairy Doctor

January 29, 2020 4.4K views

The shoemakers and tailors and chance spinners used to go …

The Hermit of Struan y Granghie

November 27, 2019 4.2K views

On the coast of Lonan, about a mile and a …

The Mermaids’ Green

November 26, 2019 4.9K views

Between Bow Veg and Glen Wither, on the coast north …

Little Red Woman & the Weaver

June 11, 2019 4.6K views

In the second half of the 19th century the principal …

The Mermaid of Gob-ny-Ooyl

June 11, 2017 4.5K views

Once on a time there lived at the bottom end …

Manx Fairytale – The Boyhood of Lugh

April 2, 2016 3K views

Long centuries ago, when Manannan Mac Lir was ruling in …

Fairies & Mortals

January 23, 2016 2.7K views

The airs of two or three Manx songs have the …

On Lhergy Roie

November 16, 2015 2K views

As I went up the Lhergy Roie, Beyond the fields …

The Manx Fairy Pig

September 3, 2015 4.7K views

There was once a little fairy pig that lived in …

The Nikkesen’s Pool, Lonan

August 18, 2015 5K views

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

Joan Mere’s House & Well

April 12, 2015 4.1K views

Under the Chasms, on the shore, is a well near …

Fairy Washers

November 30, 2014 3.2K views

The Fairy Washerwoman, also called the Washer of the Night, …

Manannan Mac Lir

November 24, 2014 4.4K views

Miss Margaret Dobbs, an authority on Celtic mythology, delivered a …

Names for the Fairies

August 14, 2014 4.9K views

The Irish expressions “the Gentry” and “the Gentle Folk” were …

Jimmy Squarefoot

August 14, 2014 6.3K views

At the bottom of the Ballagilbert Glen on the Isle …

The Fairy Saddle

July 30, 2014 4.2K views

Manx Fairies seem to have been especially fond of the …

A Fairy Greeting

July 9, 2014 1.8K views

“Themselves” upon the mountains. “Themselves” that haunt the plain, That …

The White Lady

June 30, 2014 2.5K views

Once upon a time a young man was coming home …

The Fairies’ Banquet

June 30, 2014 1.7K views

The last sod-house on the Island is said to have …

Abduction of a Boy by the Fairies

June 29, 2014 2.5K views

Not so many years ago a farmer’s son in the …

Fairy Christening

June 15, 2014 1.6K views

The man that was telling this story said he knew …

The Fairies of Cregneish

June 15, 2014 1.5K views

Fairies are very light and I suppose the strong winds …

Horses Seeing Fairies

June 15, 2014 1.8K views

One day this winter we had no bread for tea …

Manx Dialect Connected with the Fairies

June 14, 2014 1.8K views

The Isle of man is full of Fairy lore. A …

The Keimagh

June 14, 2014 3.4K views

On the Isle of Man, the Keimagh is a spirit …

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