Thie Ferrishyn was the name sometimes given to what was supposed to have been the first house built in a village, its oldest house, because the fairies were fondest of…
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fairy world
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You must know that once in every hundred years the Good People hold a fair on Midsummer Day. When the gorse was bright as gold on all the Island hedges…
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Phynodderee/Fenodyree is sometimes used as a proper name and sometimes as the name of a class of beings, the latter of which is a hairy little creature, a sort of…
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The shoemakers and tailors and chance spinners used to go round on people’s houses, making things and spinning rolls of wool for the people. One time the tailor went to…
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On the coast of Lonan, about a mile and a half eastward of Laxey is Struan-y-Granghie, a little streamlet that comes tumbling over high cliffs of rock before it enters…
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Between Bow Veg and Glen Wither, on the coast north of The Sound, is a place called Lhiondaig Phollinag, or the Mermaids’ Green or Garden, and the tradition is that…
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In the second half of the 19th century the principal cottage at the top of Port Mooar in Maughold, was occupied by two men named Kissack, father and son, both…
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The airs of two or three Manx songs have the name of being ‘fairy tunes’ which were overheard in lonely places, especially on the banks of streams. Other melodies from…