 records a circumstance which took place in the nineteenth century, but which, it is to be hoped, was never customary in the Isle of Man. A farmer, who had lost a number of his sheep and cattle by murrain, burned a calf as a propitiatory offering to the...  Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx - Side 298af Sir John Rhys - 1901 - 718 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Arthur William Moore - 1890 - 388 sider
...in the nineteenth century, but which, it is to be hoped, was never Ctnlist.imtti.it tttflftxes. 185 customary in the Isle of Man. A farmer, who had lost...where a chapel was afterwards built. Hence the name. Bashtey (M), ' baptism ;' in CHIBBER-Y-VASTEE, ' Well of the Baptism.' This well, which is close by... | |
 | Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - 1891 - 616 sider
...but which, it is to be hoped, was never customary in the Isle of Man. A farmer", he goes on to say, " who had lost a number of his sheep and cattle by murrain,...that point I have never been informed, but Mr. Moore is probably right in the use of the capital d, as the sacrificcr is, according to all accounts, a highly... | |
 | James Murray Mackinlay - 1893 - 394 sider
...customary in the Isle of Man. A farmer, who had lost a number of his sheep and cattle by murrain, burnt a calf as a propitiatory offering to the Deity on this spot, where a chapel was afterwards built. Such facts point to the same notion as that already indicated in connection with St. Tegla's Well,... | |
 | James George Frazer - 1913 - 382 sider
...cattle. Let me here also quote Mr. Moore's note in his Manx Surnantes, p. 184, on the place name Cabbed yn Oural Losht, or the Chapel of the Burnt Sacrifice....that point I have never been informed, but Mr. Moore is probably right in the use of the capital d, as the sacrificer is, according to all accounts, a highly... | |
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