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[Themselves]1
[The Buggane of Glen MeayWaterfall]8
[How the Manx Cat lost herTail]14
[The Making of Mann]16
[The Coming of Saint Patrick]20
[How the Herring became King of theSea]24
[The Silver Cup]27
[The Child without a Name]34
[The Fairy Doctor]38
[Joe Moore’s Story of FinnMacCooilley and the Buggane]42
[The Fynoderee]47
[The Fynoderee of Gordon]48
[The Lhondoo and theUshag-reaisht]54
[Billy Beg, Tom Beg, and theFairies]56
[The Lazy Wife]62
[The Mermaid ofGob-ny-Ooyl]71
[The Lost Wife ofBallaleece]75
[Smereree]78
[Kebeg] 83
[The Fairy Child ofClose-ny-Lheiy]85
[The Little Footprints]93
[The Tall Man ofBallacurry]97
[Ned Quayle’s Story of the FairyPig]100
[Kitterland]105
[Teeval, Princess of theOcean]110
[The Wizard’s Palace]116
[The Enchanted Isle]121
[Stories about Birds]123
[The Moddey Doo or the Black Dog of PeelCastle]129
[Little Red Bird]133
[Tehi Tegi]134
[John-y-Chiarn’sJourney]138
[A Bad Wish]143
[The Witch of SlieuWhallian]144
[The Old Christmas]149
[The Buggane of St.Trinian’s]153
[King Magnus Barefoot]161
[Manannan Mac-y-Leirr]169, 171
[The Cormorant and the Bat]174
[Caillagh-ny-Faashagh, or the ProphetWizard]176
[The City Under Sea]182
[An Ancient Charm Against theFairies]186

MANX FAIRY TALES

THEMSELVES

I

There was a man once in the Isle of Mann who met one of the Little Fellows, and the Little Fellow told him that if he would go to London Bridge and dig, he would find a fortune. So he went, and when he got there he began to dig, and another man came to him and said:

‘What are you doing?’

‘One of Themselves told me to come to London Bridge and I would get a fortune,’ says he. And the other man said: