Excerpt from Mona Miscellany: A Selection of Proverbs, Sayings, Ballads, Customs, Supertitions, and Legends, Peculiar to the Isle of Man The editor has every reason to believe that the two volumes of Mona Miscellany contain the largest collection Of the Folk Lore Of the Isle Of Man that is to be met with, and which the author Of the term (mr. Thoms, for many years the editor of Notes and Queries) defines to include Popular superstitions, ballads, legends, and generally, as the name implies, the lore of the people.

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