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Overview
Tom Craine’s midnight walk from Bradda mine brings a little roadside dog that grows successively to goat and donkey size. It disappears at the Ballacurry gate, where he sees a tall thin man. The figure walks to the house and back, wearing old-fashioned lace, satin breeches, silk stockings and shining buckles.
Craine flees from its pale dreadful face, then returns with sceptical friends Ben Mylechreest and Bill Teare. All three see a man as tall as two men, and flee when he turns. They never disclose what they then saw. The sequential dog and man appearances suggest a connection, but the passage contains no witnessed transformation or account of that withheld final sight.
Origins & earliest records
Sophia Morrison, Manx Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1911), The Tall Man of Ballacurry, pp. 97–99.
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Manx Fairy Tales: The Tall Man of Ballacurry, pp. 97–99
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- Primary collected narrativeMorrison 1911: The Tall Man of Ballacurry, pp. 97–99Research access: 2026-10-05
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