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2000
[from Manx Notes & Queries, 1904]
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Buggane |
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The Buggane (or Boggane) in general |
45 |
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The Buggane of the Smelt |
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— of the Fistard |
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— changing his shape |
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Bear |
68 |
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Bull |
69 |
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Cat, black, changing into a bull |
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Cat, meeting a, and darkness over-coming a man |
70 |
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Cock and a cloud of smoke |
67 |
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Dog and a tall lady |
70 |
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Dog going away in a flash of light |
70 |
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Greyhound |
69 |
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Goat (yn yhoayr haittagh) |
67 |
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Hare growing bigger and bigger |
68 |
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Horse, grey, going away in a flash of light |
72 |
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Paifrey changed into porpoise |
61 |
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Pig |
69 |
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Monster, meeting of black |
67 |
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— white at the Howe |
67 |
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— great |
68 |
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Wolf, spectre changed into a |
61 |
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Little black things growing the size of a horse |
68 |
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Cabbyl ushtey (water horse) |
44 |
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— ny hoie (night horse) |
44 |
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Dooinney oie (night man) |
45 |
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Finnodderee |
48 to 51 |
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Glashan (brownie) |
47 |
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Lhiannan shee |
45 |
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Taroo ushtey (water bull) |
45 |
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Draidh and Druidism |
39,41 |
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Bouch crout (conjurer) |
39,41 |
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Buitch (witch) |
39,41 |
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Cailleach ny ghuesagh (witch, dealing in spells) |
41 |
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Faaishneyder (diviner) |
39,41 |
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Fer Obbagh (enchanter) |
39,41 |
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Fer ysseree (sorcerer) |
39,41 |
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Fairy doctors |
39,44 |
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Witch of Glen Rushen |
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—— murdered |
52 |
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—— driven out of boat |
38,51 |
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Enchantress changed |
61 |
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Witchcraft |
39 |
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Charms |
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Cowrey druiagh (Druid’s mark) |
41 |
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Crossagh (cross) |
40,42 |
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Orradh (prayers) |
40,42 |
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Guessag (conjuration) |
39,40,41 |
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Pishag (rags) |
7,40,41 |
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Rhussag (invocation) |
40,41 |
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Sheean (incantation) |
40,42 |
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Protectors |
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St. Bride |
42 |
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St. Columb-Killey |
42 |
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Three young women |
40 |
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Fairies |
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Fairies in general |
53 |
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—— banquetting |
54 |
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—— bleeding a servant |
107 |
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— calling on |
54 |
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— fires |
56 |
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— going with |
55 |
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— hunting party |
54 |
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— image-making |
55 |
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— pulling boat ashore |
57 |
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— powers of the |
52 |
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— riding in the elder trees |
55 |
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— sporting in the trees of Lhingowl |
54 |
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— treating them |
51,52 |
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— visitors |
54,55 |
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——at work |
55 |
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Fairy child in Foxdale |
56 |
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———— in the north of the Island |
56 |
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—— coopers |
86 |
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—— dogs |
69 |
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—— fleet |
86 |
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—— love haunting a man |
55 |
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Little fairy |
54 |
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Spirits |
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Spirits malicious |
30 |
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— of the dead |
35 |
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— of the living |
36 |
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— black |
40 |
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— true |
40 |
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— evil |
40 |
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— of the stile (ny keimee) |
40 |
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— banishing to the Red Sea for seven years |
35-36 |
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— exorcising |
35 |
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Spectre |
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— carriages |
58 |
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— huntsmen |
61 |
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— headless men |
66 |
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Spectre woman |
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near Foxdale |
57 |
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in white |
58 |
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grinning hag at the Fistard |
58 |
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white ladies at the Sugar Loaf |
59 |
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tall lady and large dog |
70 |
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lady and a chase meeting |
70 |
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dead woman seen |
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horse seeing a ghost |
67 |
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Ghosts |
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Ghost of Pat ny Keylley |
66 |
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—— of a man seen on a steamer |
66 |
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—— of a suicide |
66 |
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—— of two men and a woman |
67 |
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Devil |
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Devil in shape of a bull |
69 |
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—— dancing to the fiddle |
72 |
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Demon’s tricks |
93 |
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Nightman |
40,41 |
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*Sea Lore (protection and lucky things) |
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Boat to go with the sun |
107 |
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Crossbone of bollan |
84 |
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Cat, possession of, preservative against drowning |
83 |
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Deckswept |
86 |
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Dust from lucky skipper’s house |
84 |
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Thatch pulled from house |
38 |
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Herbs |
38 |
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—— drinking of, and sprinkling on nets |
109 |
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—— tied in net (buoy faman) |
109 |
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—— vervaine, for sprinkling boats, etc |
84 |
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Fire, not to go out of boat |
108 |
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Herring, first caught, (yn eirey) boiled and divided |
86,109 |
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—— if roe or milt |
85 |
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—— a few thrown over for merman |
86 |
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—— salting it before parting with it |
84 |
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horseshoe nailed on mast |
84 |
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——nailed on stern |
106 |
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Iron or silver piece put under stern |
107 |
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Knife stuck in main-mast to raise wind |
86 |
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Nets, to dip three times into the water |
106 |
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Loan of matches, broken and one part kept |
86 |
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Loan refused |
83,107 |
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Roman Catholic Priests |
85,107 |
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Salt not given out of boat |
108 |
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—— to sprinkle herring with |
106 |
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Scratching mast |
83 |
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Skipper’s claw-hammer coat |
106 |
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Stealing herring basket, lucky |
108 |
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— tally stick |
108 |
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* Only the Manx references of the Sea Lore are indexed. |
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Bad things |
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Asking where going to |
84 |
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Birth at low-water |
83 |
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Boat, third, going out |
83 |
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Columba’s day, gale expected |
83 |
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Corpses on board |
83 |
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Herring bones, if burned |
84 |
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— turning it when eating it |
84 |
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Looking over side of boat when hauling in nets |
86,108 |
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The merman whistling |
83 |
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Parson to meet |
83,85,107 |
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White stones as ballast |
85 |
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Wind, how blowing on Christmas Day,either good or bad |
86 |
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Sun shining on Peel Hill, either good or bad |
86 |
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Whistling at sea dangerous and interdicted |
83,85 |
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Woman on board |
86 |
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—— to meet |
107 |
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— to meet first |
83,107 |
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Things Tabooed: |
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Anything womanly |
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Church and clergy |
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Surnames |
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Mermaid and merman |
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Swine, sow, pig, hare, dog, rabbit, mouse, cat, cow, horse |
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Result of catch, sounding at sea |
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Progress of fishing |
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Mermaid |
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Joan Mere’s house and well |
79 |
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A dead mermaid |
79 |
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The mermaid’s green |
79 |
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Witches driving out of boat |
38,51 |
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Haaf, or secret words |
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Chunnag |
84 |
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Cold iron (if land animals called by their shore names orparson, priest,church mentioned, you must say cold iron) |
108 |
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Choll (dog) |
83 |
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Yn fer lesh cleaysh liauyr (hare) |
108 |
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— fer cleaysh wooar |
83 |
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Pommits (rabbit) |
83 |
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Sackots (rat) |
83 |
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Scaaverry, scraper (cat) |
83 |
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Scrabeyder (cat) |
108 |
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Swiney (pig) |
83 |
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Uncle (rat) |
83 |
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Mooir, muir (sea) |
83 |
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in guilley beg (merman) |
13,83,85 |
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Yoan gorrym, Yoan muir (mermaid) |
83 |
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Haaf Nicknames (instances) for men |
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Lhergy (= parson) |
84 |
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Fayle for Gale |
84 |
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Garron, Graaue garoo, Nickey, Nick |
84 |
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Meseff, Butters, Tabernacle |
84 |
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Clim, Danny |
84 |
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Billy Yemmy, Jonny Yoan-Bet, Polly beg, Jenny, Etty |
84 |
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Haaf phraseology (instances) |
84,85 |
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Fires, etc. |
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Bright lights |
59 |
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Big stack on fire |
56 |
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Big wheel on fire |
72 |
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Darkness arising |
60 |
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General Folk Lore (various) |
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Itch in the nose |
31 |
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Sharp objects |
31 |
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Signs of death |
31,36 |
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Arkan sonney, or lucky little pig |
61 |
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Ass |
31 |
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Bees |
31 |
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Cats |
32 |
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Frogs |
32 |
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Fowl (hen, cock) |
32 |
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Magpie |
32 |
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Black pig seeing the wind |
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Hare |
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Raven |
32 |
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Seagull |
32 |
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Titmouse (thollog faiyr) |
32 |
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Moths |
31 |
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Herring moth (lhemeen y skeddan) |
31 |
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Spider |
32 |
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Eel |
31 |
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Haddock |
31 |
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Salmon |
32 |
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New moon lore |
24 |
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King Orree’s Grave, dread to pass |
59 |
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Haunted houses |
60 |
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Disturbing old foundations |
61 |
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Haunted dub |
45 |
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Religious Observances, |
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Blessing the dead |
60 |
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Children unbaptised |
61 |
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Jaculatory prayers |
34 |
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Prayers (gwee and guee) |
43 |
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Sponsnsors |
34 |
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Weddings |
33 |
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Customs |
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Arran as caajey (bread and cheese) |
78 |
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Creaming the well |
43 |
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Old feast of the water well |
79 |
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Cowree |
27 |
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Churning |
34 |
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Flesh meat |
34 |
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New milk |
34 |
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Plant Lore |
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Bwillogh (Caltha palustris) |
10,14 |
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Foxglove (claggan slieau) |
11,12 |
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Mayflowers |
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Blughtagh vlieaun |
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Gorse or conney |
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Marsh Marygold |
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Primrose |
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St. John’s Wort |
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Rowan Tree |
10,40 |
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Trammon |
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Legends |
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The stone circle on the Mull |
73 |
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PoyllYill |
74 |
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Ballaqueeney in Rushen |
74 |
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Ballaqueeney and the stone circle on the Mull |
75 |
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The Mull circle |
75 |
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Cronk ny Mooar in Rushen |
81 |
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Crosh inolley mooar |
73 |
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Enchantments |
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The enchanted giants at CastleRushen |
89 |
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— prince in Devil’s Den |
89 |
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Islands |
65 |
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Stories |
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The bee-stung parson |
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The good broth |
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Christian Lewaigue’s dog |
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Wren (yn drean) |
37 |
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Festivities |
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Christmas, keeping |
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— custom |
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— little or big |
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— song |
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Holy Eve |
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Unnesup |
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Weather Rules |
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Barrule |
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Bushel’s house |
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Maughold Head |
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Mock suns |
24 |
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Snow |
24 |
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Shenn laa chibbyr ushtey |
79 |
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The twelve days, the Breton gour deziou, and the Zwolpten of the Germans |
79 |
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Dust |
24 |
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Various |
22,51 |
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Ossianic |
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—The story of the Boddagh yn Cooit Laatchagh |
91 |
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The Cycle of the Manx Ossianic Legends |
93 |
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Finn Mac Cooil |
93 |
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—— of the Sound |
93 |
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Olave Goddardson and the Sword |
94 |
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Macabuin |
94 |
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The legend of Orree |
96 |
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Fin as Oshin |
97 |
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The destruction of the castle of the Fians by Orree |
97 |
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The lay of the smithy |
99,100 |
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Irish parallel of the Gorree legend |
101 |
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The Gorry Saga |
102 |
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The Saga of the dark smith of Dron |
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theim |
102 |
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King Gorree, the mythical King of Man |
103 |
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Gorry |
104 |
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Finn |
l00 |
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Conclusion |
105,106 |
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Etymology |
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Airt of wind |
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Andisop (unnesup) |
17,18 |
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Beini er y chleaysh |
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Bink |
17 |
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Braain |
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Bush of herring |
135,136 |
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Buggane |
46 |
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Carrane |
19 |
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Carabus (currag) |
110,111 |
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Coble |
113 |
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Cowrey keyrrach |
9 |
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Cowree (flummery) |
28 |
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Creggyn jaghee |
27,114 |
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Cughtagh |
43 |
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Eirey (first herring caught) |
86,109 |
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Earrag vooar |
85 |
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Finnodderee |
50 |
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Fox day |
52 |
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Gaarderyn slock |
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Glashan |
48 |
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Gille purn (devil fish) |
83 |
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Groois niuyis (beastings) |
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Guilley glesh (hick man) |
37 |
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Haering |
144 |
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Kybbon |
114 |
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Jough vie |
17 |
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Mease |
90,91 |
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Mollag faman |
38,108 |
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Prinjeig (haggis) |
27 |
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Qualtagh |
78 |
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Reeayllagh |
134 |
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Scaa buggane ushag |
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Scow |
112 |
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Scowtes |
112,113 |
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Sceadd |
144 |
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Sgadan |
144 |
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Seld, sledz |
144 |
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Sild |
144 |
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Skeddan fray |
127 |
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—— spendit |
127 |
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—— mie |
127 |
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—— molg |
127 |
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—— oghyr |
127 |
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Scrol (gauze) |
21 |
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Ymmyr corraa |
143 |
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Place Names |
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Airey (=shealings, setr, sel) |
16 |
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Barrule |
88 |
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Big Bay |
134 |
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Chibbyr ny gabby |
73 |
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Chione Roauyr (Contrary Head) |
134 |
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Cronk ny Arrey Lhaa |
76 |
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Devil’s Den |
88,89 |
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Erystein |
18 |
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Geaylin yn Choloo |
133 |
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Ghaw Ving |
43 |
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Glen Gawne |
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The Horse Leap |
19 |
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King William’s Bank |
11 |
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Lheim y chenney (fox leap) |
65 |
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Lhergy Frizzel |
71 |
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Lhiack ny virragh |
75 |
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Lhiondaig pohllinag (mermaid’s green), |
79 |
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Ooig-ny-Sieyr |
86 |
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Paark Staine |
16 |
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Port Casherick (=Port Erin) |
75 |
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Raad Kiare as feed |
87 |
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Scraaveryn Harry |
83 |
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Strunakiie Bank |
135 |
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Wart |
134,136 |
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Sundries |
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Use of sea shells |
79 |
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sligs |
79 |
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creachan |
80 |
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shlig screebey |
80 |
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tan-creachan |
80 |
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Manx-Gaelic language |
29 |
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Anglo-Manx dialect |
30 |
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Manx month-names |
38 |
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—— named inns |
15,52 |
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Names of fish and shell-fish |
15,24 |
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Manx cattle, &c |
20 |
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Christian names, Bahee, Gilbert |
26 |
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Poetry and Songs, etc. |
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Christmas song |
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Fragment of the old song |
13,21 |
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Ghaw Ving rhyme |
43 |
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Harvest song |
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Lines to— by Edward Farquhar |
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Laa Boaldyn |
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Yn poosey beg fannag |
21 |
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The Unnesup |
17 |
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Sheep shearing |
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Ushag veg my |
21 |
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Children’s rhymes |
22,23,24,32,33 |
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Games |
34 |
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Lullabies |
20 21 22 |
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Proverbs |
21,22,32,37 |
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Puzzle |
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Riddle |
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Historical |
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Annexion in 1765 |
52 |
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The Isle of Man in 1671 |
149 |
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The Isle of Man in 1761 |
90 |
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Prices in —1773 |
125 |
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The Jews— |
128 |
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Range of Welsh traditions in the Island |
80 |
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Ancient road of the 24 Keys at Maughold |
86,88 |
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The Manx watch hills |
76 |
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Coronation of George IV and presentation of Manx falcons |
76 |
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Royal visit to Ramsey |
70,72 |
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The Sodorian Isles |
77 |
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The Frasers of Lovats, Thanes of the Isle of Man |
78 |
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The Manxman |
25 |
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Manx Ethnography |
28 |
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— shealings or aireys |
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A sketch of the early printers |
150 |
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South Barrule |
88 |
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Horton, Thomas, former governor |
52 |
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Biographical |
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Ballawhane, Charles |
39,107 |
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Bushell, Thomas |
62 |
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Quirk, John, an old Manx bard |
153 |
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Thurot, François (separate) |
i-xvi |
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Matters maritime |
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Smuggling, 1757 |
53 |
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Capture of Manx vessels, 1757 |
53 |
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Manx boats between the Island and Liverpool |
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Names of Manx fishing boats |
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Manx compass |
128 |
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Herring, herring fishery, &c. |
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—Herring fishery in Peel a hundred years ago |
107 |
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Manx sea fishing in early times |
109 |
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Chapters on the Manx herring fishery |
115 |
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1660-1700 |
113 |
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1701-1750 |
118 |
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1751-1765 |
120 |
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1766-1800 |
122 |
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Retrospect |
124 |
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1801-1897 |
125 |
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Miscellanea in connection with the herring fishery |
127,143 |
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English dialect words respecting the herring |
128 |
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The herring and its habitat |
129 |
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Hydrographical and physical features |
131 |
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Peel fishing |
134 |
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Douglas back fishing |
135 |
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The great spawning ground |
137 |
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Trawlers |
138 |
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Maxima and minima |
139 |
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Conclusion |
142 |
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The shad, or sceadd, herring, skeddanand sild |
144 |
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Gastronomical notes on the herring |
145 |
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Any comments, errors or omissions
gratefully received The Editor |
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