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Name
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The Origin of the Three Legs
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Description
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The native tradition of how the Island received its arms. Before the Christian era, the Island was inhabited by fairies and all business was carried on in a supernatural manner. A blue mist hung continually over the land, preventing mariners from suspecting an island was near. When fishermen, stranded by a storm, struck the first spark of fire on the beach, the fog began to move up the mountainside, closely followed by a revolving object resembling three legs of men joined together at the upper thigh, spinning like the spokes of a wheel. Hence the Arms of the Island. The blue mist was Manannan's cloak of protection in another form.
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Type
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Origin Legend
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Arms of Mann
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Source
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Train
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Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. III
