Browse Items (13 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: superstition Page of 2 Next Page Sort by: Title Creator Date Added Fionn mac Cumhaill escapes the monster's belly "…Fin M’Coul stood before the monster; but instead of innocently submitting to be sucked in like a common man, Fin, famed as he was above all the Fions for feats of agility, took a hop, step, and leap, and fairly and clearly jumped down its… Tags: blood, Caesar Otway, colour, dryness, evacuation, Fionn mac Cumhaill, Folklore, hills, lake, monster, mountains, nineteenth century, St. Patrick, superstition "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 "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 "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 "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 "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 "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 Page of 2 Next Page Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
