Browse Items (50 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: Travelogue Page of 5 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 "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 "And out of there I crossed the sea" A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory Tags: fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue "And there I embarked and crossed to Calais" A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory Tags: Avignon, Calais, fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue "And these two had orders to take me to the archbishop of Armagh" A famous account of a 1398 visit by Viscount Ramon de Perellós to Saint Patrick's Purgatory Tags: fourteenth century, itinerary, pilgrimage, purgatory, Ramon De Perellós, Travelogue Page of 5 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2