Manannan's Cloak of Mist
- Item sets
- Folklore
- Name
- Manannan's Cloak of Mist
- Description
- Manannan wrapped his island in mist to hide it from invaders. The blue mist hung continually over the land and prevented mariners from suspecting there was an island so near at hand. Whether anyone still believed this by the eighteenth century is another question, but the old sense persisted that the Island was a place apart, sheltered, hidden, answerable to its own customs. The mist, if it ever existed, was a way of saying something true: that the island's best protection had always been its separateness, its smallness, the fact that it could be overlooked.
- Manx Name
- Cloagey Vannin
- Place
- Isle of Man
- Period
- Celtic and Pre-Norse Period
- Type
- Legend
- Protection
- Source
- Train, Metrical History
- Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. I
- Waldron