The Manx
The Manx call it in English Hollantide, a word derived from the English All hallowen tide, ' the Season of All Saints ^' This day is also reckoned in Man according to the Old Style, so that it is our
The Manx call it in English Hollantide, a word derived from the English All hallowen tide, ' the Season of All Saints ^' This day is also reckoned in Man according to the Old Style, so that it is our (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)
The Manx are, as a rule, a sober people, and highly religious; as regards their tenets, they are mostly members of the Church of England or Wesleyan Methodists, or else both, which is by no means unus (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
The Manx peasantry are perhaps the most independent and prosperous in the British Isles; but their position geographically and politically has been favourable to the continuance of ideas not quite up (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx
- attribution: The Manx brownie is called the fenodyree, and he is described as a hairy and apparently clumsy fellow, who would, for instance, thrash a whole bamful of corn in a single night for the people to whom h (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)
"The Manx brownie is called the fenodyree, and he is described as a hairy and apparently clumsy fellow, who would, for instance, thrash a whole bamful of corn in a single night for the people to whom he felt well disposed; and once on a time he undertook to bring down for the farmer his wethers from Snaefell."
- attribution: The Manx word for the rowan tree, incorrectly called a mountain ash, is cuirn, which is in Mod (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)
"' The Manx word for the rowan tree, incorrectly called a mountain ash, is cuirn, which is in Mod."
- attestation: The Manx call it in English Hollantide, a word derived from the English All hallowen tide, ' the Season of All Saints ^' This day is also reckoned in Man according to the Old Style, so that it is our (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter IV: Manx Folklore)
"The Manx call it in English Hollantide, a word derived from the English All hallowen tide, ' the Season of All Saints ^' This day is also reckoned in Man according to the Old Style, so that it is our twelfth of November."
- attestation: The Manx are, as a rule, a sober people, and highly religious; as regards their tenets, they are mostly members of the Church of England or Wesleyan Methodists, or else both, which is by no means unus (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
"The Manx are, as a rule, a sober people, and highly religious; as regards their tenets, they are mostly members of the Church of England or Wesleyan Methodists, or else both, which is by no means unusual."
- attestation: The Manx peasantry are perhaps the most independent and prosperous in the British Isles; but their position geographically and politically has been favourable to the continuance of ideas not quite up (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter V: The Fenodyree and his Friends)
"The Manx peasantry are perhaps the most independent and prosperous in the British Isles; but their position geographically and politically has been favourable to the continuance of ideas not quite up to the level of the latest papers on Darwinism and Evolution read at our Church Congresses in this country."