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Samuel Leece, then happened to be; and going there through the snow-drifts, I found him with his son and the…

Date of account: Published 1911
Source: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
Reference: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries · selected passage 199
Rights: public_domain
Language: English with translated testimony
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Samuel Leece, then happened to be; and going there through the snow-drifts, I found him with his son and the family within

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Samuel Leece, then happened to be; and going there through the snow-drifts, I found him with his son and the family within. The day was just the right sort to stir Manx memories, and it was not long before the best of stories about the 'little people' were being told in the most natural way, and to the great delight of the children. The grandfather, who is eighty-six years of age, sat by the open fire smoking; and he prepared the way for the stories (three of which we record) by telling about a ghost seen by himself and his father, and by the announcement that 'the fairies are thought to be spirits'.

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