Manx Fairy Tales

BY
SOPHIA MORRISON

 

LONDON
DAVID NUTT, 57-59 LONG ACRE
1911

 

CONTENTS

Chapter

Page

Preface

Themselves

1

The Buggane of Glen Meay Waterfall

8

How the Manx Cat Lost Her Tail

14

The Making of Mann

16

The Coming of Saint Patrick

20

How the Herring Became King of the Sea.

24

The Silver Cup

27

The Child Without A Name

34

The Fairy Doctor

38

Joe Moore's Story of Finn Maccooilley and the Buggane

42

The Fynoderee

47

The Fynoderee of Gordon

48

The Lhondoo and the Ushag-Reaisht.

54

Billy Beg, Tom Beg, and the Fairies

56

The Lazy Wife

62

The Mermaid of Gob-Ny-Ooyl

71

The Lost Wife of Ballaleece

75

Smereree

78

Kebeg

83

The Fairy Child of Close-Ny-Lheiy

85

The Little Footprints

93

The Tall Man of Ballacurry

97

Ned Quayle's Story or the Fairy Pig

100

Kitterland

105

Teeval, Princess of the Ocean

110

The Wizard's Palace

116

The Enchanted Isle

121

Stories About Birds

123

The Moddey Doo or the Black Dog of Peel Castle

129

Little Red Bird

133

Tehi Tegi

134

John-Y-Chiarn's Journey

138

A Bad Wish

143

The Witch of Slieu Whallian

144

The Old Christmas

149

The Buggane of St. Trinian's

153

King Magnus Barefoot

161

Manannan Mac-Y-Leirr

169, 171

The Cormorant And the Bat

174

Caillagh-ny-Faashagh, or the Prophet Wizard

176

The City Under Sea

182

An Ancient Charm Against the Fairies

186


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