Folk Lore of the Isle of Man

by A.W. Moore

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Genres: Mythology, History

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Arthur William Moore CVO SHK JP MA (1853–1909) was a Manx antiquarian, historian, linguist, folklorist, and former Speaker of the House of Keys in the Isle of Man. He published under the sobriquet A. W. Moore.

Reviews

[Kendra]

Mostly a Christianized version of Manx folklore, lots of info on how folks lived in general.

[Michael Kelly]

It's a classic, of course, and was for many years the only readily available resource on Manx folklore, though it has more recently been supplemented with other publications and reprints of other long out of print volumes. This remains the primary 'go to' volume, however.

It is rationally arranged in sections, though trying to relocate a specific item in the dense text can prove to be a bit of a struggle. However, it manages to pack a huge amount of information into its pages.

The edition I have appears to be a facsimile of the original print, with the result that the text is tightly packed, poorly defined, very small and often quite faint.

An invaluable book which would benefit from a new, revised edition with spacious new typesetting and a comprehensive index.

[Matt Reid]

Enjoyed reading this, for its age it’s surprisingly easy to digest and broke up into very short stories and pieces of info that mean you can pick up and read just for a short while if you like.

[Trish]

For the most part, this was schorlarly, academic and dry, and far less "fantastical" than I'd hoped. It ended up being a slog rather than a pleasure.