Lezayre

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: Well, after a while he did surprise her again at work at four crossroads, somewhere near Lezayre (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "Well, after a while he did surprise her again at work at four crossroads, somewhere near Lezayre."

• attestation: Fire, however, appears to have been the chief agency relied on to clear away the witches and other malignant beings; and I have heard of this use of fire having been carried so far that a practice was (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "Fire, however, appears to have been the chief agency relied on to clear away the witches and other malignant beings; and I have heard of this use of fire having been carried so far that a practice was sometimes observed — as, for example, in Lezayre — of burning gorse, however little, in the hedge of each field on a farm in order to drive away the witches and secure luck."