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Name
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The Mooinjer Veggey
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Description
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The little people, the fairies proper in Manx tradition. They lived under the hills and sometimes helped and sometimes harmed. They were not the gossamer creatures of Victorian illustration. They were neighbours of a kind, powerful, unpredictable, and best treated with respect. Waldron observed that the Manx people would be even refractory to their clergy if the clergy tried to preach against the existence of fairies. The Church knew better than to try. The accommodation between Christianity and the older world meant the fairy faith and the Sunday service coexisted without contradiction.
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Manx Name
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Mooinjer Veggey
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Type
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Creature
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Fairy Tradition
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Source
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Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. IV
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Waldron
