Author : Edward Callow Year of publication: 2010 Format: Paperback Signature: No First edition :No Condition: New Category: Childrens books Cost of book: £4.99 Price negotiable: No
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This is a reprint of Edward Callow's 186 page compilation originally punlished in 1882. It has especially been republished to raise funds for charity. ISBN 978-1-907256-77-6 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, 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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