description
A 1910 retelling of a traditional Manx folktale in verse by one of the Island’s most popular poets, Cushag (Josephine Kermode). The story revolves around the superstition that no work should be done on Christmas Day, tied to the calendar change in the middle of the 18th Century that shifted the apparent date of Christmas Day. This is a reformulation of the same folktale as it appears in Sophia Morrison’s Manx Fairy Tales under the title, ‘Old Christmas’. The full text of this poem is available on: www.manxliterature.com