Browse Items (51 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Protestant critique Page of 6 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends" Knox stands on the rock to demonstrate his powers of deduction, an event which results in much storytelling upon the return to shore Tags: credulity, elitism, ferry house, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, sectarianism, storytelling, Travelogue "A lonely and remote region" Knox describes Lough Derg as remote and obscure Tags: isolation, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rural landscape, Travelogue "A miracle! - A miracle!" Knox criticises the superstitious hysteria for miraculous cures Tags: Catholicism, crowds, cure, devotional activities, James Spencer Knox, miracle, nineteenth century, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Travelogue "A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed" Knox reveals that the "serpent" is a rock Tags: debunking, elitism, James Spencer Knox, negative description, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scientism, superstition, Travelogue "A spreading hawthorn tree" Knox visits a lone tree on an island, a home of fairies in local folklore Tags: fairies, Folklore, Hawthorn, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Sidhe, Travelogue, tree "A very strange Story hath been invented" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: Caoranach, cattle, eighteenth century, etymology, Fair Lake, Fenian Cycle, Fionn mac Cumhaill, giants, imagination, John Richardson, legend, myth, Protestant critique, Red Lake, superstition "All was as still as death" Knox describes the deserted scene on Station Island Tags: emptiness, isolation, James Spencer Knox, landing, nineteenth century, pilgrim crossing, pilgrims, Protestant critique, Travelogue, women's history "An incredible quantity of rags" Knox describes the scattered bloodied rags showing traces of the bodily rigours of the pilgrimage Tags: austerity, embodied experience, injury, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, penitential beds, Protestant critique, rags, Travelogue "Every Body knows how excessively the Irish are addicted to Pilgrimage" A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general. Tags: eighteenth century, John Richardson, penitential beds, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, Station Island "He had swallowed up a very wicked man" Knox asks questions about the monster, which appears to devour sinners but largely emerges just above the water Tags: elitism, James Spencer Knox, mentalities, morality, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, sacrifice, sectarianism, superstition, Travelogue Page of 6 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2