CELTIC FOLKLORE WELSH AND MANX (Legends and Sagas of Wales) - Illustrations pictures and annotated the Myth of Celtic Deities (Gods and Goddesses) by JOHN RHYS M.A.D.Litt

Author:JOHN RHYS M.A.D.Litt.
Language: eng
Format: azw, mobi
Published: 2014-09-01T16:00:00+00:00

Whether the Manx are alone in thinking it unlucky to lend salt from one boat to another when they are engaged in fishing, I know not: such lending would probably be inconvenient, but why should it be unlucky, as they believe it to be, does not appear. The first of May is a day on which it is unlucky to lend anything, and especially to give any one fire(1). This looks as if it pointed back to some druidic custom of lighting all fires at that time from a sacred hearth, but, so far as is known, this only took place at the beginning of the other half-year, namely, Sauin or Allhallows, which is sometimes rendered into Manx asLaa 'll mooar ny Saintsh, "the Day of the great Feast of the Saints."

Lastly, may I mention that it is unlucky to say that you are very well: at any rate, I infer that it is regarded so, as you will never get a Manxman to say that he is feer vie, "very well." He usually admits that he is "middling"; and if by any chance he risks a stronger adjective, he hastens to qualify it by adding "now", or "just now," with an emphasis indicative of his anxiety not to say too much.

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