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The Isle of man is full of Fairy lore. A …
The Isle of Man was known to the authors of …
Nennius was a Welsh monk of the 9th century who …
A talking mongoose in the 1930s received extensive press coverage, …
Rather unexpectedly both the second and third Wonders are associated …
In the Isle of Man, white quartz pebbles were put …
Glencrutchery, in the parish of Conchan on the Isle of …
There are three cairns, the top two are very obvious …
The third Wonder, the stone which moved at night and …
To show you how nearly every person has a nick-name …
At a place near Peel, about sixty years ago (1850s), …
The three moons in the fall of the year would …
On Dalby mountain the old Manx people used to put …
This is earth from a spot where three land boundaries …
In the rugged matrix of George Quarrie’s uncollected verses lurks …
To keep the home fires burning… In the Isle of …
It was the time that Saint Patrick was coming on …
Oran (aka Odhrán or Odran) preceded Saint Columba and is …
The purifying virtue of fire was often used to destroy …
A Manx wedding is one of the traditional social occasions …
We know that at the time of the Roman invasion …
One of the most dramatic episodes ever witnessed in a …
Bishop Wilson tells us in his ‘History of the Isle …
At Kirk Michael, 31 July 1712, one Alice Knakill, alias …
Among the accustomed unwritten laws of the Manx Church was …
Chibber-yn-rhullic ‘Well of the Graveyard’, is a medicinal spring, now …
FAIRIES – “The fairies are baking,” is said of a …
In Viking times, the Danes were called ‘DHOO-GAEL’, that is …
There is a little farm named Ellanbane, once the White …
A wedding with none of the bride’s relatives in attendance …
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