50 minutes | Sunday, 19 December 2021
In 1843, the reporter in the Mona's Herald was incredulous that, in that modern and enlightened age, people in Marown believed in witchcraft. However, a trial for trespass on Ballaharry somehow became a hunt for the person who was bewitching the farmer, John Quine, who was also a preacher, and apparently supported in his endeavours by two other preachers on the jury.
Richmal Crompton is well-known as the writer of the Just William stories, but we hear a Manx translation of her story which, from the dialogue, she set in the rural United States of America.
As y kiaull ain y cheayrt shoh -
NEEAR NESAN - Ushtey millish 'sy gharee
PLETHYN - Mil harddach wyt
LORI WATSON & THE RULE OF THREE - Poppies
TRI YANN - An alarc'h
EOGHAIN O CEANNABHAIN - An bhaca tu mo Sheamaisin?
ANAO ATAO - Sunny Corner/Frogpool
MICHAEL HANLY & MICHEAL O'DONNELL - An bothan a bh' aig Fhionnghuala
YSBRYD - Hedfan
CLASH VOOAR - Roie, ben Juan Tammie