The Keimagh
- Item sets
- Folklore
- Name
- The Keimagh
- Description
- The spirits that haunted churchyard stiles in Manx tradition. The boundary between consecrated and unconsecrated ground was a charged threshold in Manx belief. The keimagh inhabited that boundary, occupying the liminal space where the sacred met the everyday. Part of Moore's comprehensive taxonomy of the Manx supernatural world.
- Manx Name
- Keimagh
- Place
- Isle of Man
- Period
- Celtic and Pre-Norse Period
- Type
- Creature
- Source
- Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. IV
- Book Chapter
- Chapter 03 — 1405-1651