The river Neb shall run red from Glen Crew to the sea,
And gulls shall sip their full of the blood of Manninee.
It all came true. The north men sailed into Peel and ran their flat-bottomed boats up to Glenfaba Ford, where the south men met them to keep them from landing. They fought up the stream to Glen Crew where there was a great slaughter, and the bodies of the slain dammed the stream and turned the little glen into a pool. The waters of the Neb were reddened by Manx blood when they ran into Peel Bay. The south side women had followed the men and were watching the battle from a little distance, but when they saw that the north people were winning they rushed down, and into the heart of the fight, with bratfuls of stones and with hacks, and won the day for the south. And a law was made that henceforth the widows in the south of the island should get half of their husband’s estate; but the north side women, who stayed at home, were to get only one-third.
The Prophet Wizard foretold, too, the finding of Foxdale lead mines. A man came to him and asked:
‘How will I get rich, O Caillagh-ny-Faashagh?’
And the Wizard answered:
There’s a butt in Ballafesson worth the whole of Balladoole.
But the riches of the Isle of Mann lie hid behind Barrule.
He also gave this prophecy to old Juan the weaver, who asked him for one:
At the foot of Barrule there will be a market town,