THE PHYNODDERREE: 5 Manx folk and fairy tales from the Isle of Man

Various

aug. 2010 · Abela Publishing Ltd

Om denne e-bog

IN no part of the British Isles has the belief in the existence of Fairies retained a stronger hold upon the people than in the Isle of Man. In spite of the tendency of this matter-of-fact age to destroy what little of poetry, romance, and chivalry education has left to us, there lurks still in many countries, and especially in mountainous districts, a half credulity in the supernatural. 

This volume rescues from oblivion a few of the Manx legends: Mona's Isle, 

The Phynodderree (from whence this book obtains its title), 

Tom Kewley and the Lannanshee, 

King Olave The Second and the Great Sword Macabuin, and 

The Buggane's Vow. 

Many legends of good and evil Fairies are still related by the country people of Mona's Isle; and those who care to inquire into the habits and customs of the Manx cottagers will see and hear much that will reward their curiosity. It is not the mere excursionist, visiting the Island for a summer holiday who will ever learn or see anything of these customs, but those who branch off the high road and venture into the recesses of the mountain districts. 

In the course of conversations on the lingering belief in Fairies, a regular attendant at a local Church, and a well-to-do farmer expressed his implicit conviction that such people as fairies did frequent the Glen in which he lived. In reply to the question, "Have you ever, in your life, seen a fairy?" he replied, "No! I can't exactly say I ever saw one; but I've smelt them often enough." 

So curl up with this volume in a comfy chair for just as this book brings you enjoyment and mirth. 

This book has especially been republished to raise funds for charities. So,  be assured that your purchase will have also helped an underprivileged person somewhere for 33% of the publisher's profit is donated to charity. 

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Om forfatteren

Edward Callow was born in London in 1825 but his Manx parents ensured that he maintained a close relationship with the South of the Isle of Man throughout his youth. He became a stockbroker in the City of London in the 1840s but this career seems to have gone badly as he was declared bankrupt as early as 1847. By 1882 he was living in Highgate in North London, where he wrote his collection of four stories based on Manx folklore, The Phynodderree and Other Legends of the Isle of Man. This was followed by Old London Taverns: Historical, Descriptive and Reminiscent and his idiosyncratic From King Orry to Queen Victoria: A Short and Concise History of the Isle of Man in 1899. It was only a year after this that he died, on the 23rd of May 1900 at the age of 75. He is buried at the Westminster Cemetery in Hanwell, West London.