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Overview
Tehi Tegi makes herself exceptionally beautiful, with a voice that holds birds and animals attentive. Her suitors follow her while abandoning fields, houses and families. She encourages each to believe he may marry her. Riding a milk-white, gold-shod horse, she leads six hundred men toward a river.
She makes the river appear shallow until the men enter, then releases the disguise so the water overwhelms them. She turns into a bat and flies away. The horse separately becomes a perkin and swims to sea. The tale’s closing explanation of women being made to follow men is its social claim, not an endorsed present-day rule. The enchantress’s bat change and the horse’s separate transformation are not merged into one composite body.
Origins & earliest records
Sophia Morrison, Manx Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1911); Tehi Tegi, pp. 134–137.
Records & interpretation
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Manx Fairy Tales: Tehi Tegi, pp. 134–137
Complete selected tale inspected in the original-edition transcription.
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- Primary collected narrativeMorrison 1911: Tehi Tegi, pp. 134–137Research access: 2026-10-05
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