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Name
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Waldron's Fairy Island
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Description
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Waldron, writing around the 1720s, recorded the native belief that the first inhabitants of the Island were fairies, and that these little people still had their residence among the Manx. They called them the good people and said they lived in wilds and forests and on mountains, shunning great cities because of the wickedness acted therein. All the houses were blessed where they visited, for they fly vice. Waldron noted that a person would be thought impudently profane who should suffer his family to go to bed without having first set a tub of clean water for these guests to bathe themselves in. If anything happened to be mislaid and found again in an unexpected place, they presently told you a fairy took it and returned it.
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Type
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Account
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Fairy Belief
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Source
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Waldron, Description of the Isle of Man (c.1720s)
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Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. III
