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Overview
The mermaid of Bulgham is a friend of the Sayle family at Cornah gill. Evan Sayle encounters a pleasant-looking woman on a rock who asks after his father, then disappears into the water. The father recognises the connection with the family’s earlier good fortune and advises taking apples on the next trip.
She sings while accepting an apple, asking that land-eggs be remembered for sea children. Evan plants an apple tree above her haunt before sailing abroad, promising its fruit will fall toward the water. Family luck continues, while she sings sorrowfully on the rocks and eventually leaves to seek him. Neither returns. This is a gift-and-friendship account, with no explicit fish-tail description or drowning attack.
Origins & earliest records
Sophia Morrison, Manx Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1911), The Mermaid of Gob Ny Ooyl, pp. 71–74.
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Manx Fairy Tales: The Mermaid of Gob Ny Ooyl, pp. 71–74
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- Primary collected narrativeMorrison 1911: The Mermaid of Gob Ny Ooyl, pp. 71–74Research access: 2026-10-05
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