Peel

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: And an octogenarian captain at Peel related to me how he had once when a boy heard a tarroo ushtey: the bellowings of the brute made the ground tremble, but otherwise the captain was unable to give me (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "And an octogenarian captain at Peel related to me how he had once when a boy heard a tarroo ushtey: the bellowings of the brute made the ground tremble, but otherwise the captain was unable to give me any very intelligible description."

• attestation: A lady of about thirty-five (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "A lady of about thirty-five, living at Peel, related to me how, when she was a child suffering from a swelling in the neck, she had it charmed"

• attestation: But he was, nevertheless, a thriftless fellow, and when he went to Peel, and sent the crier round to announce his arrival, and received a good deal of money from the fishermen, he seldom so conducted (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "But he was, nevertheless, a thriftless fellow, and when he went to Peel, and sent the crier round to announce his arrival, and received a good deal of money from the fishermen, he seldom so conducted himself as to bring much of his earnings home."

• attestation: and when he went to Pee (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "and when he went to Peel"