MANX MEDITATION for Revolving Orchestra.

From a photograph by Alfred Ellis, London.] CHILDHOOD IN A MANX COTTAGE.

The Ballavolley cottage was a typical Manx cottage.

At that time the island was divided by a discussion as to the maintenance or abolition of Manx political institutions, and the boy threw himself into this discussion with characteristic ardor.

In the meanwhile he had decided to follow Rossetti's advice, to write a Manx novel; and having thought out the plot of "The Deemster," went to the Isle of Man to write it.

"I turned my Jewish story into a Manx story, and 'The Jew' became 'The Manxman.'

He loves the Manx and they love him.

Corporal JONES, of the Wessex Yeomanry; Sergeant SMITH, of the Manx Mounted Infantry.

Let me here also quote Mr. Moore's note in his Manx Surnames, p. 184, on the place name Cabbal yn Oural Losht, or the Chapel of the Burnt Sacrifice.

That notion would fully explain why Manx people used also to burn bewitched animals alive; in doing so they probably imagined that they were simultaneously burning the witch who had cast the spell on their cattle.

186 sq. (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901), i. 310; id., "Manx Folk-lore and Superstitions," Folk-lore, ii.

186 sq. (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901), i. 310; id., "Manx Folk-lore and Superstitions," Folk-lore, ii.

[390] (Sir) John Rhys, "Manx Folk-lore and Superstition," Folk-lore, ii.

; id., Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901), i. 309.

On this subject compare (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Heathendom (London and Edinburgh, 1888), pp. 460, 514 sqq.; id., Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901), i. 315 sqq.; J.A. MacCulloch, in Dr. James Hastings's Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, iii. (Edinburgh, 1910) p. 80.

[570] (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Folk-lore, Manx and Welsh (Oxford, 1901), i. 316, 317 sq.; J.A. MacCulloch, in Dr. James Hastings's Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, iii.

(Edinburgh, 1910) s.v. "Calendar," p. 80, referring to Kelly, English and Manx Dictionary (Douglas, 1866), s.v.

602 sq. (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx, i. 316 sq. Above, p. 139. See Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp.

437 sq. Joseph Train, Historical and Statistical Account of the Isle of Man (Douglas, Isle of Man, 1845), ii. 123; (Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901), i. 315 sqq.

(Sir) John Rhys, Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901), i. 318-321.

171 sq. Jules Lecoeur, Esquisses du Bocage Normand (Condé-sur-Noireau, 1883-1887), ii. 289 sq. Joseph Train, Historical and Statistical Account of the Isle of Man (Douglas, Isle of Man, 1845), ii. 124, referring to Cregeen's Manx Dictionary, p. 67.

(Sir) John Rhys, "Manx Folklore and Superstitions," Folk-lore, ii.

; repeated in his Celtic Folk-lore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901), i. 306 sq.

(Sir) John Rhys, "Manx Folklore and Superstitions," Folk-lore, ii.

299 sq.; id., Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx (Oxford, 1901), i. 304 sq.