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"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

"Surrounded by Wild and Barren Mountains"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: devotional activities, dimensions, eighteenth century, John Richardson, Protestant critique, relics, remoteness, stone, superstition, wildness

"Lakes, Ponds, Wells, Trees, Stones, Crosses, Images, and Relicks"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: cross, devotional activities, eighteenth century, holy well, immersion, John Richardson, Protestant critique, relics, superstition, water

"When any Superstitious Place is defaced or demolished, they repair it"

A critique of St. Patrick's Purgatory and Catholic pilgrimage in general.

Tags: Catholicism, eighteenth century, John Richardson, pilgrimage, Protestant critique, superstition

"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 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

"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

"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

"In nine cases out of ten, the legend is simply an attempt made by an unlettered, but imaginative people, to account for natural appearances by supernatural agency"

A description of the power given to unexplained natural phenomena in Irish folklore, and the character of the storytellers

Tags: colonialism, conversation, debate, dispute, fishing, Folklore, Henry Newland, Irish identity, memoir, mythology, negative description, nineteenth century, superstition, upper lake

Destroying Station Island

"And therefore we do hereby order and resolve that Letters shall be dispatched from this board unto the Rev. Father of God the Lord Bishop of Clogher, Sir John Dundarre High Sheriff of the County of Donegal, Edward Archdale and Leonard Blennerhasset…

Tags: 1632, Clogher, demolition, destruction of built heritage, James Magrath, land acquisition, legislation, penitential beds, Privy Council, Protestant critique, Reformation, seventeenth century, Shane Leslie, St. Patrick, Station Island, stations, superstition, suppression

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