Part 6.4 Folklore of Mann


  1. A bad hour, a bad end and little grace.
  2. He would become a horse and take you to the sea to drown you.
  3. If you gave milk to the phynnoderee in the night, it would do house work for you.
  4. It was bad luck to speak directly about the little people.
  5. Many Manx people believed in the little people.
  6. May the Bare Brush come on yourself, on your hearth, on your health, on your goods and on your children!
  7. The Bare Brush, a hearth without children and ‘weak emptiness’ ‘without foot without seed’ on the man who owns the Cleigh!
  8. The buggane was a frightful creature who could take his own head off.
  9. The glashtin resembled a man sometimes, but he had pointed ears.
  10. The glashtin was like a cabbyl-ushtey
  11. The Manx took the word ‘ferrishyn’ from English.
  12. The phynnoderee was a hairy creature which was very shy.
  13. The seven swearings of a curse.