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Overview
In Morrison’s three opening accounts, a Little Fellow sends a man to London Bridge, where another man’s dream points back to treasure under his own thorn tree. The traveller finds two boxes of gold and afterwards blesses the Little Fellows each night.
James Moore personally relates nocturnal light and spinning at his family’s wheel; his father interprets the retained wheel-band as allowing the Little Ones to work. A separate apprentice-weaver tale supplies a tiny woman riding where the spool of a wheellike object sits, who objects when struck. These encounters differ in action and witness framing. Another tale, The Lost Wife of Ballaleece, describes riders in green jackets and red caps carrying the abducted wife; a hidden straw defeats her attempted rescue.
Origins & earliest records
Sophia Morrison, Manx Fairy Tales (London: David Nutt, 1911), Themselves, pp. 1–7.
Records & interpretation
Complete selected narrative directly read; named people and textually unspecified details distinguished.
Selected bibliography
Documented works and useful reading. This is not a list of every appearance.
- 01
Manx Fairy Tales: Themselves, pp. 1–7
Full selected narrative directly inspected.
- 02
The Lost Wife of Ballaleece, pp. 75–77
Full distinct rescue narrative inspected.
Family & connections
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References
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- Primary collected narrativeMorrison 1911: Themselves, pp. 1–7Research access: 2026-10-05
- Primary collected narrativeMorrison: The Lost Wife of BallaleeceResearch access: 2026-10-05
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