{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_phy_phy09_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_phy_phy09_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_phy_phy09_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/phy/phy09.htm","summary":"This is a piece of Manx folklore, written in the style of a 19th-century collected folk tale set on the Isle of Man, drawing on the island's distinct tradition of fairies, bugganes (malevolent spirits), and enchanted places. It follows Philip Caine, a traveling pedlar, who becomes lost in mountain fog on South Barrule and stumbles upon a vast, supernaturally silent castle \u2014 grander than any real building on the island \u2014 populated by an unseen presence and a beckoning skeleton. The pedlar narrowly escapes when salt accidentally spills from his meal, causing the castle and its skeletal guardian to collapse with a shattering crash, a detail the tale presents as a known property of salt against enchantment. The story is framed through the perspective of ordinary villagers \u2014 a farmer named Tom Kewley and his neighbors \u2014 who receive Caine's account with credulous seriousness, and an elder explains the castle as a known local legend rather than a novel mystery. What distinguishes it is the grounding of supernatural encounter in mundane working-class Manx life: herring fishing, crop worries, and a pedlar's route are the texture against which fairy-world intrudes. The tale closes with the whole village performing protective folk rituals \u2014 leaving water out for fairies \u2014 treating the supernatural as an active, ongoing threat requiring practical management.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"The Phynodderree: Tom Kewley and the Lannanshee: Chapter I","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":1959}