Ramsey

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

• attestation: To prove this, he mentioned to them how they were occupied on such and such a day, and, among other things, how they took their corn on a particular day to Ramsey (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "To prove this, he mentioned to them how they were occupied on such and such a day, and, among other things, how they took their corn on a particular day to Ramsey."

• attribution: how they took their corn on a particular day to Ramsey (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "how they took their corn on a particular day to Ramsey. He reminded them also of their having heard a sudden sharp crack as they were passing by a thorn bush he named"

• attribution: I am not sure, however, that a man who turns himself into a hare would be called a wizard or witch; and I recollect hearing in the neighbourhood of Ramsey of a man nicknamed the gaaue mwaagh, that is (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "I am not sure, however, that a man who turns himself into a hare would be called a wizard or witch; and I recollect hearing in the neighbourhood of Ramsey of a man nicknamed the gaaue mwaagh, that is to say, 'the hare smith,' the reason being that this particular smith now and then assumed the form of a hare."

• attestation: He died miserably some seven or eight years ago at Ramsey, and left a widow in great poverty (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "He died miserably some seven or eight years ago at Ramsey, and left a widow in great poverty."

• attestation: he seldom so conducted himself as to bring much of his earnings home (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "he seldom so conducted himself as to bring much of his earnings home. He died miserably some seven or eight years ago at Ramsey"

• attestation: In answer to my question, how the charmer who died at Ramsey used to give the sailors luck in the fishing, my informant at Andreas could not say, except that he gave them herbs as already described, a (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "In answer to my question, how the charmer who died at Ramsey used to give the sailors luck in the fishing, my informant at Andreas could not say, except that he gave them herbs as already described, and she thought also that he sold them wisps to place under their pillows."

• attestation: Ramsey used to give the sailors luck in the fishing (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "how the charmer who died at Ramsey used to give the sailors luck in the fishing"

• attestation: This is the name of one of the mountains in the south of the island, but it is also borne by one of the knolls near the eastern end of the range of low hills ending abruptly on the coast between Ramse (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "This is the name of one of the mountains in the south of the island, but it is also borne by one of the knolls near the eastern end of the range of low hills ending abruptly on the coast between Ramsey and Bride parish, and quite a small knoll bears the name, near the church of Jurby^ I have heard of a fourth instance, which, as I learn from Mr."

• attestation: The one between Ramsey and Bride is also probably the highest point of the range (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)

  "The one between Ramsey and Bride is also probably the highest point of the range."