Part 6.4 Folklore of Mann
Ayrn 6.4 Beeal-Arrish Vannin

Manx curses:
Drogh oor, drogh yerrey as beggan grayse = A bad hour, a bad end and little grace.

Shiaght mynney mollaght = The seven swearings of a curse.

Dy jig Skeab Lhome ort hene, er dty hiollagh, er dty hlaynt, er dty chooid as er dty chloan! = May the Bare Brush (‘Brush of Destruction’) come on yourself, on your hearth, on your health, on your goods and on your children!

Skeab Lhome, çhiollagh gyn cloan, as follym faase gyn cass gyn rass, er y dooinney s’lesh y Cleigh! = The Bare Brush, a hearth without children and ‘weak emptiness’ ‘without foot without seed’ (absolutely nothing) on (for) the man who owns the Cleigh!
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Shimmey Manninagh va credjal ayns y vooinjer veggey = Many Manx people believed in the little people.

She drogh aigh v’ayn dy loayrt mychione y vooinjer veggey dy jeeragh = It was bad luck to speak directly about the little people.

Ghow ny Manninee yn fockle ‘ferrishyn’ veih’n Vaarle = The Manx took the word ‘ferrishyn’ from English.

Va’n buggane ny chretoor agglagh oddagh goaill e chione hene jeh - The buggane was a frightful creature who could take his own head off.

Va’n phynnoderee ny chretoor geayshteenagh va feer faitagh = The phynnoderee was a hairy creature which was very shy.

My v’ou cur bainney da’n phynnoderee er yn oie, veagh eh jannoo obbyr-thie dhyt = If you gave milk to the phynnoderee in the night, it would do house work for you.

Va’n glashtin goll rish cabbyl-ushtey. Va’n glashtin goll rish dooinney ny keayrtyn, agh va cleayshyn birragh echey. Veagh eh çheet dy ve ny chabbyl as cur lesh oo gys y cheayn dy vaih oo = The glashtin was like a cabbyl-ushtey
(water-horse). The glashtin resembled a man sometimes, but he had pointed ears. He would become a horse and take you to the sea to drown you.