Browse Items (13 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: superstition Previous Page Page of 2 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "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 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 Previous Page Page of 2 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2
