Browse Items (50 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Travelogue Previous Page Page of 5 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "I gazed on the distant borders of the Lake" Knox muses on the link between agriculture and spiritual rectitude Tags: agriculture, cultivation, James Spencer Knox, morality, nineteenth century, parable, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake "So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed" Knox considers the agriculture surrounding Lough Derg as a spiritual parable Tags: Catholic Church, exegesis, James Spencer Knox, landscape, morality, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, scripture, sectarianism, sermon, theology, Travelogue "The lake itself changes its wonted blue into a dull brown colour" Knox observes a change in the weather Tags: colour, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, water, waves, weather "I insisted that they should take me to an island" Knox wishes to visit an island in the upper lake Tags: boating, boatmen, elitism, islands, James Spencer Knox, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, Travelogue, upper lake "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 "What we saw was the great serpent or fish" Knox describes the fear of his Irish boatmen at the appearance of a lake monster, which he sees as a rock just above the waterline Tags: elitism, Folklore, James Spencer Knox, lake, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, rock, serpent, superstition, Travelogue "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 "They would make a Jonas of me against my will" Knox reasons that the boatmen would prefer that the monster eat the heretic reverend rather than them Tags: elitism, James Spencer Knox, monster, nineteenth century, Protestant critique, sectarianism, serpent, superstition, 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 "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 Previous Page Page of 5 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
