THE PHYNODDERREE - 5 Illustrated Children's Tales from the Isle of Man E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

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 which are related in full:

• Mona's Isle,
• the Phynodderree, or the Hairy One (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."
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10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities by the publisher.
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Leseprobe

The Phynodderee

And Other Tales of the Isle of Man

BY

Edward Callow

With Sixty Illustrations

Drawn expressly for this Work, and Engraved on Wood

by

W. J. Watson

Originally Published by

J. Dean & Son, London

[1882]

Resurrected by

Abela Publishing, London

[2018]

The Phynodderree

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing

London

United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

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The Elfins Ride

Acknowlegements

Abela Publishing acknowledges the work that

Edward Callow

did in collating and publishing

The Phynodderree

in a time well before any electronic media was in use.

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33% of the net profit from the sale of this book

will be donated to charities

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Abela Publishing,

Republishing

YESTERDAY’S BOOKS

for

TODAY’S CHARITIES

The Buggane’s Vow

Dedication

To The Dear Fairies

Of My Own Home,

Sarah Frances, Frances Elizabeth,

And Alice Mary,

I Dedicate This Book.

Edward Callow.

Preface

N no part of the British Islands 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 Nineteenth Century education has left to us, there lurks still in many countries, and especially in mountainous districts, a half credulity in the supernatural.

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 and keeping on the beaten track of sightseers, who will ever learn or see anything of these customs, but he who branches off the high road into the recesses of the mountain districts.

When gathering materials for the tale of the Communion Cup of Kirk Malew, I visited the Vicarage to ascertain, if possible, the date of the disappearance of the Fairy Silver Goblet, which Waldron in his "History" speaks of as being then in existence and in safe keeping in the Church. In the course of conversation on the lingering belief in Fairies, the Vicar informed me that one of his own parishioners--a regular attendant at Church, and a well-to-do farmer--had lately expressed his implicit conviction that such people as fairies did frequent the Glen in which he lived; and in reply to the Parsons 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."

Sir Walter Scott, in his "Peveril of the Peak," gives an outline of the legend of the "Mough-dy-Dhoo," the Phantom Black Dog of Peel Castle; and in his notes he refers to others. Waldron, in his quaint "History of the Isle of Man," alludes to several legends, and relates a good deal that is interesting on the superstitions of the Manx people and their belief in Elves and Fairies.

To rescue from oblivion some of the legends that delighted my early years, and present them in an entertaining shape before the reader, has long been my wish; and if, by reading them, an interest in, and a desire to visit, the beautiful Isle of Man is created in any who now only know of its existence as an island somewhere in the Irish Sea, I shall not have written in vain.

I am indebted to the late JAMES BURMAN, Esq., F.R.A.S., Secretary to the Lieut.-Governor and the Council of the Island, to the late PAUL BRIDSON, Esq., Honorary Secretary to the Manx Society, and others, for many of the materials of these tales.

In the event of these tales being favourably received I shall be encouraged to repeat this experiment, as there are many more Legends of the Isle of Man that I am inclined to hope will be found both interesting and entertaining.

Edward Callow

Highgate, North London, July, 1882.

Contents

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DEDICATION

PREFACE

CONTENTS

MONA'S ISLE

THE PHYNODDERREE: A TALE OF FAIRY LOVE

TOM KEWLEY AND THE LANNANSHEE

KING OLAVE THE SECOND AND THE GREAT SWORD MACABUIN.

THE BUGGANE'S VOW:

Ah, Mona's isle, fair Mona's isle,No land so dear as thou to me;Thy gorse and heather covered hills,With waterfalls and sparkling rills,Which join the bright green sea.

I love to wander in solitudeBy the banks of thy gurgling streams,Or sit and muse on a mossy stoneOf fairy-lore, buggane, and gnome,Screen’d from the sungod's beams.

’Tis sweet to ramble alone,At eve o’er the silvery sand,Watching the waves in the moonlight gleam,Now here, now there, in frolic they seemTo coyley kiss the land.

Each valley, mountain, and glen,Waterfall, streamlet, and sea,Cavern, rock, harbour, and bay,Last home of the Elfin and Fay,Fair Mona, are all dear to me.

"Then take the air,With a butterfly pairLinked to a petal blue."

The Phynodderree

A Tale of Fairy Love

CHAPTER I

"I must not think, I may not gazeOn what I am, on what I was."

BYRON