Jephthah

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• relationship: If you ask the reason for this custom now, for it is not yet quite extinct, you are told, first, that it is merely to gather ling berries; but now and then a quasi-religious reason is given, namely, t (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "If you ask the reason for this custom now, for it is not yet quite extinct, you are told, first, that it is merely to gather ling berries; but now and then a quasi-religious reason is given, namely, that it is the day on which Jephthah's daughter went forth to bewail her virginity 'upon the mountains': somehow some Manx people make believe that they are doing likewise."

• relationship: It is needless for me to say that I do not quite understand how Jephthah's daughter came to be introduced: perhaps it is vain to look for any deeper reason than that the mention of the mountains may h (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "It is needless for me to say that I do not quite understand how Jephthah's daughter came to be introduced: perhaps it is vain to look for any deeper reason than that the mention of the mountains may have served as a sort of catch-word, and that as the Manx people began to cease from visiting the tops of the mountains annually, it struck the women as the next best thing for them to read at home of one who did ' go up and down upon the mountains': they are great readers of the Bible generally."