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Overview
Ned Quayle narrates a childhood encounter near Sloc while seeking his mother and grandmother. The snow-white pig has a feathery fan-tail, long ears brushing the heather and burning eyes. Following it brings him nearly over a steep edge. It then pursues him downhill, leaping large rocks until he shuts his home’s door.
His grandmother identifies a fairy pig. Quayle relates fever, a stabbing leg pain and recovery after a Castletown charmer uses a plant picture, cross-sign and spoken Christian invocation. The quoted witness attributes his illness and cure to fairy shot; it does not show a visible projectile fired by the pig, or prove his mother transformed when her eyes seemed similar. The named narrator and retrospective account remain explicit.
Origins & earliest records
Sophia Morrison, Manx Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1911); Ned Quayle’s Story of the Fairy Pig, pp. 100–103.
Records & interpretation
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Selected bibliography
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Manx Fairy Tales: Ned Quayle’s Story of the Fairy Pig, pp. 100–103
Complete selected tale inspected in the original-edition transcription.
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- Primary collected narrativeMorrison 1911: Ned Quayle’s Story of the Fairy Pig, pp. 100–103Research access: 2026-10-05
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