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Rather unexpectedly both the second and third Wonders are associated …
A Blessing on Ellan Vannin from a Scottish Gael Ellan …
The third Wonder, the stone which moved at night and …
To show you how nearly every person has a nick-name …
On the Isle of Man, the Keimagh is a spirit …
At a place near Peel, about sixty years ago (1850s), …
The three moons in the fall of the year would …
It is said that an heiress of Eary Cushlin had …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Ballaugh Church on the Isle of Man must be the …
FAIRIES – “The fairies are baking,” is said of a …
There is a little farm named Ellanbane, once the White …
A wedding with none of the bride’s relatives in attendance …
When Paie Cregeen married Gorry Karran in Rushen Church she …
There is an old cottage in Spaldrick, which I wish …
The ‘soddhag-rheynney‘ (dividing-cake) was an extra bit of dough baked …
Things which are simply lucky or unlucky in a general …
Fairy flowers (red campion) should never be brought indoors at …
During the Continental wars, corn was, in the British Isles, …
♫ Oie-vie noght, Babban boght, Safe in Mammy’s arms you …
Were there ever Druids on the Isle of Man? I …
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