Down at the bridge they could see the lights going about like will-o’-the-wisps. THERE was one time a Fynoderee living in Gordon. Down dropped the Eagle, and down dropped the Wren, breathless, but King of the Birds. Great ships went sailing from its port to all parts of the world, and round it were well-grassed lands with cattle and sheep. People said he was never able to learn their language right. But scarcely was he outside the walls when down fell the new roof with a terrible crash, that made Tim jump a great deal more nimbly than he ever did before. The waves were rising like mountains, breaking over the boats and harrying them from stern to stern. As soon as he left the mountain road the beast roared after him: And he came home next day dragging one foot after another, with a wizened face and as cross as two sticks, with his two humps on his back, and if they are not off they are there still. Three of the stories are richly illustrated, and available for online reading and listening read by the author in a gentle Manx … It went into the river and he never saw it any more. Manannan Beg was son of Leirr, From that time the wise men of the island made their women go on foot and follow their husbands wherever they should lead, so that no such accident should happen again. It is sometimes said that "themselves" are the souls of those drowned in Noah's flood. This night, after the Fleet had shot their nets sometime, the night being still fine and calm, the Seven Boys heard the voice of the Merman hailing them and saying: He also gave this prophecy to old Juan’ the weaver, who asked him for one: At the foot of Barrule there will be a market town, And he took off his hat, and stood up in the boat, and threw a handful of water towards the child, crying out: ‘ If thou are a boy, I chrizzen thee in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Juan! He blew another blast at Ballellin, for there they could see the fog rolling down from Creg-ny-Molt. After this the King of Scotland sent a message to him, saying: When they were taking their seats one of them, whose face he thought he knew, whispered to him: ‘Don’t thee taste nothin’ here or thou will be like me, and never go back to thy ones no more.’ When he went into the cowhouse the next morning the cows had all come home and they got rest after that. He could hear from inside the smithy the roar of the bellows and the clanging of the hammer on the anvil. And with that he fetched a bart of straw and bunged the two windows of his house. Once there Manannan dropped the isle to the bottom of the sea, and he and his company were seen no more. The Fairy Faith in Fairy Countries (London: Colin Smythe 1978) [first published 1911] Morrison , Sophia Manx Fairy Tales (London: D.Nutt, 1911) Rhŷs , John Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Oxford: Clarendon 1901), II vols. LONG hundreds of years ago there was a witch in the island who made herself the finest and cleverest-looking young woman in it. The Charmer carried me to a room upstairs and sent his wife away, and laid me on the floor and locked the door. Then they all went on together, Themselves talking and laughing away. So they went all together until they met a bull. Most of the stories are traditional and have been handed down by word of mouth from father to son. Conchubar did not answer, so she said again, ‘Loose me, I beg thee!’ in a voice as sweet as the music of Hom Mooar, the Fairy Fiddler. At length the Wizard became the terror of the whole island, so that no person would pass within several miles of his palace. ‘They’re saying,’ she thought, ‘that the bees are coming out, an’ the three-year-old bullocks going down on their knees, an’ the myrrh coming up in bloom.’ Then she says to herself: In his fort he had a great banqueting hall, where handsome boys made sweet music, and others played games and did great feats of strength. Finn MacCool and all his company; The folklore of the Isle of Man is rich in references to birds. and gave the password also – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, ‘AND SUNDAY,’ says Billy Beg thinking himself clever. … It was a fine day, the sky was clear and the wind was in the right airt, being from the north. All that the Princess of the Ocean had said came true. But before long she disappeared. ‘I can that,’ said my lad. They are rather inclined to be mischievous and spiteful, and that is why they are called by such good names, in case they should be listening! When he came to the big door it was locked. It galloped before him and disappeared round the bend of the road where the gate of Ballacurry is. Billy Beg, Tom Beg, and the Fairies ‘Ate, ate, lash into ye, an’ let’s have no lavins.’ Always after that, when the neighbours would ask her if she believed in the wonders of the Old Christmas Eve, she would say: ‘So we all got ready and went to bed. what a peaceful sleep! Juan found his boat on the strand where he had left her and was setting to work to launch her, when he thought he saw a glimmering light, which was not the light of the moon, in one of the caves near him. They were dashed to pieces on the rocks of the Calf, and only two men escaped with their lives. ‘I am sorry to give anyone trouble,’ said John; ‘I’ll get over the hedge out of the road.’ Some one ran to fetch the cup. The breeches were at last finished, then with one spring he made a leap through the nearest window. Mammy is goin’ to feed him, though.’ Then he sailed to Anglesey and made himself lord over it, but he soon came back to the Isle of Mann, for it pleased him best. Many a day her man would going out early as hungry as a hawk, without a bite or a sup in him. Preface He governed Mann well for long, long years. A great many years ago a beautiful girl living at Ballaquine was sent to look for the calves, which had gone astray. The bat was so frightened that he hid himself in an old ruin until the darkness came on; and from that time until now he will only venture out under covering of the night. ‘He’s very big an’ powerful,’ says she. ‘Kebeg! Then he called in Manx to one of his men: ‘Snieu queeyl, snieu; ‘rane, queeyl, ‘rane; The Fynoderee was wearing no clothes, but it is said that he never felt the cold. OLD Robin Quirk one fine morning was sitting sunning himself before his cottage door, when the Blackbird, living in the Tramman Tree in his garden, flew down, settled near Robin, and began to talk to him in Manx: ONE time Lhondoo, the Blackbird, was living in the mountains and Ushag-reaisht, the Bird of the Waste, as Manx ones call the Golden Plover, was living in the lowlands, and neither of them was able to leave his own haunts. He made the men of Galloway cut timber and bring it over to make three forts for him. One day Baron Kitter had gone over to the Calf to hunt the red deer there, leaving his cook, Eaoch of the Loud Voice, in the castle to cook his dinner. Last of all came the king with his men. Manx Christian names and their meanings. IT was the time that Saint Patrick was coming on horseback to Mann, over the sea from Ireland. After that he heard the bleat of a goat: ‘Beware, beware, beware! The witch only laughed to see what her beauty had done, and she kept all the men near her by making each think that himself might be the chosen one. It was a grand sight to see the nice little girls in their red petticoats, and white stockings and shoes with silver buckles on, and little bells all tinkling in their hair; and the Lil Men in their white knee breeches, loghtan stockings and spotted carranes. She had taken tight hold of him by a feather under his great, broad wing and hidden herself. He knew that, and he went and put beautiful lines and stripes on himself – pink and green and gold, and all the colours of the sea and sky. When she went out walking or riding the very birds of the air would forget to sing for looking at her, and her sweet voice would tempt them off the trees to listen to her. The little body said to him: Magnus fought like a lion, but soon he was pierced through the thigh by a spear. Margad was left alone in the kitchen when her mistress had gone to bed, and at first she was trembling with fright; but she was a middling brave girl, and she took a notion, as there was no person to stop her, to see if all the things were true that she had heard about Old Christmas Eve. But for all that they were not comfortable, for work as hard as the man might at his farming and his fishing, he was kept as poor as Lazarus by a lazy wife. He had told her to mend them until he was tired, but all he could get out of her was ‘Traa dy liooar.’ Time enough! Some were going round, giving horn-spoons for the cowree and binjean, and then handing round the oatbread and cheese, and the tramman wine. Magnus touched it with his hands, but was suddenly seized with a great fear. When her husband says to her: The Lazy Wife ‘I will not only carry the shoes, but eat them, rather than that Magnus should ruin a single province in Ireland.’ With living and dead in the boat. They can appear in any shape they please – as ogres with huge heads and great fiery eyes, or without any heads at all; as small dogs who grow larger and larger as you watch them until they are larger than elephants, when perhaps they turn into the shape of men or disappear into nothing; as horned monsters or anything they choose. However that may be, a while after this they said the sea was surging dreadful, and the men in the boats had to hold to the sides, or it’s out they’d have been thrown. The Buggane of Glen Meay Waterfall He was a Saint so clever, ‘I see, I see!’ answered again the little Tailor, without raising his eyes, and continuing to pull out with all his might. III Quick as thought she cut the string of her apron and down she tumbled to the ground, rolling over and over down the hill. And she took all the joy in the world of the child that he was back again safe and sound. He was out walking one day on Barrule, when he saw the warships of the Northmen were in the bay of Peel. It happened as they were sailing that a stortn came on, and the waves were breaking over the vessel, insomuch that the poor bat had to leap from place to place to escape the water, and in the darkness he was cast out of the boat clinging to an oar. The people of that side of the island fled from their homes, and the place was lonely and desolate. Then he said: ‘Hoa, hoa, hoa!’ Even the deemsters, when they take their oath, say: ‘I will execute justice as indifferently as the herring’s backbone doth lie in the midst of the fish.’ At once she began to call to them: ‘Bad luck to you! You’d think there were a hundred there; And oh! The stories of the Moddey Dhoo, Fynodderee and the Buggane of St. Trinian’s today seem a part of the fabric of Manx life. The Buggane of St. Trinian’s So hoisting sails they left the port and when the land was fairly opened out, so that they could see the Calf, they headed for the south and stood out for the Shoulder. ‘An’ stand straight and don’t be puttin’ the drone on yer back like that.’ And givin’ him a buttercake, she says: And that was on them for a tax ‘Well, well – then, well, well – on the boghee millish. So the horse went under the big table, and the bull went under the dresser and the goat went on the stairs, and all the rest in the corners. Finn could walk on the sea, but the Buggane couldn’ .. and when Finn got off and he couldn’ get more revenge on him, he tore out a tooth and hove it whizzing through the air after Finn. THERE was once a man living in the south of the island whose name was Colcheragh. She was that lazy she would do nothing but sit in the corner of the chiollagh warming herself, or going on the houses for newses the day long. When the night came Ballaleece took a besom and swept the barn floor so clean that not one speck was left on it. One night, when he was out on his travels he came to Mullin Sayle, out in Glen Garragh. ‘Strike up for me – make has’e, make has’e, man – keep joggin’ your elba.’ At other times he would go for a season into the glens; and in this way they continue from that storm to the present time – the one hides himself, and the other seeks him. But after a time he began to think that something was amiss with the cows. On his return he sent his dirty shoes over to Morrough, King of Ireland, with this message: KING MAGNUS BAREFOOT – Chronicon Manniae. They were always good to the Dooinney Marrey, the Merman, and when they were hauling their nets they would throw him a dishful of herring, and in return they had always good luck with their fishing. As Tom looked he was all at once taken with terror, and ran off as hard as he could go down the road to Colby. That minute the pain left me. The houses were dark and the only thing they saw stirring was Quilleash’s dog, and as soon as he smelt Themselves he took to his heels with his tail between his legs. While he was in the room the men were quiet and sober, and no bad words were spoken. It was now the noon of a calm and sunny day. ‘ Colcheragh made up his mind to take this advice. But his hatred of other people was as great as his power, and he would not allow any person to come near him except his own servants, and they were evil spirits. ‘Why shouldn’t I be satisfied?’ says the woman; for she thought to herself it would be a middling queer thing if she couldn’t find out his name within a week. Kitterland He said: The river Neb shall run red from Glen Crew to the sea, This wind tore several pieces off the land and cast them into the sea. Thou and thy Traa dy liooar have left me nearly bare.’ In the summer time he was getting in their hay and cutting their corn. It was so black dark that – they could see no hill, and above the uproar of the sea they could hear the surges pounding on the rocky coast. ‘Going to Rome, for the world has fallen.’ These Little People are not the tiny creatures with wings who flutter about in many English Fairy tales, but they are small persons from two to three feet in height, otherwise very like mortals. Of the four stories which have not been told to me personally – Teeval, Kitterland, The Wizard’s Palace, and Smererce – the three first have been printed in various folk-lore books, and the Manx of the last appeared in ‘Yn Lioar Manninagh’ some years ago. When Emergaid, the daughter of Loan, saw the strength and power of Olaf, she loved him; and while her father was putting back the block and anvil, she whispered to the king: Simply click again to get In the morning when we got up we told them what we had seen first thing. They were too terrified to go home, so they turned in with Tom and they slept, all three, in one bed. He said, too: ‘That’s our baby,’ says she. Before she knew where she was he rushed her across the fields and down the hill, till he brought her to the top of the Spooyt Vooar, the big waterfall of Glen Meay. ‘Who said that to you, cock? His friends were terrified and tried to hold him back, but he snatched up the keys and went out into the passage. ‘What are thou blowing on thee fingers for? In an instant the crying stopped, and was never heard again, and the light went out and was seen no more. ‘I’m not much of a believer in most of the stories some ones is telling, but after all a body can’t help believing a thing they happen to see for themselves. Lheeish yn ollan, lhiams y snaie, Now the banks of the stream were marshy, and by the river-side grew a quantity of sedge with broad, green leaves. The Eagle flew up and up and away, away to the sun, till he couldn’t lift a feather an inch higher. When I looked back over my shoulder, I saw that it was jumping over the big stones and rocks on the mountain side as if they had been butts of ling. ‘Take that,’ says Scarrag the Skate, and he ups with his tail and gives the Fluke a slap on his mouth that knocked his mouth crooked on him. ‘ Who said that to you, cock?’ The Fish had a strong notion to make Brac Gorm, the Mackerel, king. THERE is at least one spot in the world where Fairies are still believed in, and where, if you look in the right places, they may still be found, and that is the little island from which these stories come – Ellan Vannin, the Isle of Mann. The soldiers were terrified of him at first, but after a time they were used to the sight of him and lost some of their fear, though they still looked on him as something more than mortal. Catch hold of my bridle rein, hold it fast, and I shall be free.’ Eng. Then he heard sweet singing, and when he turned round what should he see but the Mermaid leaning over the boat and smiling pleasantly. And so it has been ever since. When the hour came to carry the keys to the captain, two of them would always go together – no man would face the dark passage alone. Vest for the middle is bad for the middle! ‘I mus’ run, thou ‘re not the chile that was in the criddle! Then terror seized on the Northmen when they saw the Manx fleet, and they cut their cables, hoisted sails, and cleared away as fast as they could, and Manannan and his island were left in peace. Hour after hour of the dark lonesome night crept on, and he heard nothing but the cows’ breathing and their rustle in the straw. The smaller pieces became the shifting sands which wave round the coast, and are sometimes seen and sometimes disappear. ‘Go to the Devil, yourself and your fortune-telling,’ shouts he, jumping up and flinging the balls at her. When they had crossed the island they each put out to sea in a sailing boat, and each came in sight of Drontheim at the same moment. He longed to go into one of these fine houses, but he could not leave his diving bell, or he would have been drowned. I thought I had a lazy Dirt, And where was the straw and hay which made such a snug bed in the barn? But when he came he looked that grand that they didn’t know him. When he was a boy he had many a time looked out of the door on moonlight nights to try if he could put sight on them dancing on the lonely shore. But he ran in the water till he came to the churchyard, and they could not touch him there. ‘Leave Norway with all speed, and keep thy life and kingship.’ This page is an index of ships by their port of registry. ‘Maybe there is; let us count the balls.’ But the envoys told their master of the richness of the Irish lands and the pleasantness of the air, and Magnus kept it in his mind. It was a right fine, beautiful moonlight night when he was coming down from the mark, and when he was near to Gob-yn-Ushtey he heard crying and crying. Then thou shalt wear it always in battle, and when thou shalt look on my face and call my name, thy enemies’ strength shall go from them and shall come into thee and thy men.’ When she had said this, she waved her white arm to Conchubar and plunged into the waves. Donncadh which gives the surnames O'Donoghue and McDonagh, and the Mx MacDoncan and MacConky in M.R., Doncan, M.R. Then he went back to his work. ‘Cease to make war against me and I will yield thee those of the Western Isles that thou canst from the mainland go round in a vessel with a paddle-rudder.’ He went away in haste, but took with him the lovely crystal cup that lay beside the Saint. Then another man said he had seen the little old woman sitting on the top of the spool of the spinning wheel and coming down Raby Hill at dark. ‘What are thou wanting here?’ says the Giant. The wager was taken up eagerly, as they hoped that if the roof was one night up, it would be left on. It is sometimes said that "themselves" are the souls of those drowned in Noah's flood. The tailor gave a leap off the table down to the floor, and it wasn’t long till he had the fine fire. He had a horse called Enbarr of the Flowing Mane, who could travel like the wind over sea as well as land, swift hounds that could catch any wild beast, and a sword called The Answerer, whose wound was always fatal, besides his Magic Branch and his wonderful boat, Wave Sweeper. MANANNAN MAC Y LEIRR, the Son of the Sea, was the first Ruler of Mann. The night was fine, and stars and a small crescent moon were in the sky. When she had made slaves of the men of the island in this way, she said one day: If any man dared to go to see the palace, to ask for work or to beg for charity, he would never be heard of again. The dance suddenly ceased. Without care or anxiety, Coming back to the door after a bit, he said: Colcheragh followed these sounds, keeping close at their heels. At that she pretended to be frightened, and says she, slowly, pointing her finger at him: S’lesh hene yn ollan, as lesh my hene y snaie, Juan was trembling all over, and at first he was blinking his eyes and could see nothing. I slept last night on the ridge of the roof, Shayla: A wonderful name for your princess that has the meaning “fairy” Do check out whether any of these names … The Prophet Wizard foretold, too, the finding of Foxdale lead mines. Black Thrush, are you coming, are you coming? ‘Aw, houl yer tongue, man; thou don’t frecken me wi’ thy Bugganes,’ shouted the woman. She was fairly scourged until there came a fine day in the spring, while Hom Beg Bridson, the tailor, was in the house sewing. Well, before that day the tailor was seeing lots of wickedness in the child. But it was not long until the Buggane and Finn did meet, and then they had the battle! Tiddy Ones, Tiddy Men, or Tiddy People. This fall put fear in the people, for they were sure now that it was the evil, destructive Buggane himself that was doing the mischief. If thou are a girl I chrizzen thee in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Joanney!’ Leprechaun Generally described as a fairy shoemaker, this creature is a red capped fellow who stays around pure springs and is known to haunt cellars. When he got home he dug under the little thorntree by the chimney and he found an iron box. When he saw his enemies’ ships sailing, he would cover the island round with a silver mist so that it could not be seen; and if, in spite of the mist, his enemies came near, he would throw chips into the water and change them into ships. ‘I see, I see!’ replied Tim, mockingly. The child gave a hop, skip, and jump into the cradle. He told them what he had seen, and they made fun of him and would not believe that he had seen any such thing. But I wouldn’ go, for it was only foolishness.’ ‘To put them in heat,’ said the Farmer. There it stands in the green meadow under the shadow of rocky Greeba Mountain, and there its grey roofless ruins are to be found now. Up comes the Buggane to the door, hot-foot. He cleared the kitchen floor, and then he struck up ‘Tune y wheeyl vooar.’ And with that he made himself into the shape of three legs and rolled like a wheel down from the mountain top as fast as the wind. I felt a sharp pain go through my right leg like a stab. The rent each paid out of the land Then came a little sweet voice through the mist and the trees in answer: He does not like to be seen, so if a farmer wants work done by him, he must take care to keep out of the Fynoderee’s way. Coming in better, with living and dead in our boat. As it went I saw that it was not like an ordinary pig – its tail was feathery and spread out like a fan, and it had long lapping ears that swept the ling. When Magnus saw them he shouted: At last she bethought herself of the Giant that lived in a lonesome place up the mountain for she had heard tell he was good to work, and the woman, she says to herself: May the pot-stick and the round tables, ‘I am King of the Birds, King of the Birds.’. Twelve chicks I can bring out of the egg. He went to the cow-house the first thing every morning, and one morning he noticed the cows looking so tired they could hardly stand. Ny smoo ta goll ass.’. To lift the dew at grey cock crow, ‘Then the prophecy shall be fulfilled,’ said Olaf, and he thrust the sword into the heart of Loan, and afterwards slew with it the Hammer-man also. She ran and left him. And that was all. Fight on bravely, my men, and fear no danger for me.’ On Black Thomas’s Eve, which was the first day of the Christmas holidays, the spinning wheels all had to be put away, the making of nets ceased, and no work of any kind must be done until after Twelfth Day. He came down at last and picked the giant’s eyes out, and they killed him, and they all lived in his house together. And in a straw-rope creel run off with thee. With his heels he was stamping it under. I’ll hold her head till thou get on.’ It is sometimes said that “themselves” are the souls of those drowned in Noah’s flood. 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