The Manx cabinet
An island. Several kinds of story.
Read the building, the court record and the collected tradition on their own terms.
Manx cabinet · DOCUMENTED / DISPUTED CLAIM
02The Witches Mill: building, museum, story
An ordinary working building and an extraordinary museum story need different kinds of evidence.
Manx cabinet · ARCHIVE / PRIMARY RECORD
03Elizabeth Kewin: a record of accusation, not a magical biography
A seventeenth-century case shows why allegation, verdict and church discipline need separate headings.
Manx cabinet · FOLK TRADITION / INTERPRETATION
04Jinny and Hop-tu-Naa: a living song, an unresolved identity
The song has variants. A proposed historical person is a hypothesis, not a settled origin.
Manx cabinet · FOLK TRADITION
Charms, households and the work of a folklore collector
Read what was recorded about belief without turning a collection into a remedy book.
Keep the layers visible
Primary record, later interpretation, folk tradition and modern practice are labelled throughout. A question that remains open is a useful research result.
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