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The Keimagh
Folklore
Also known as: Keimagh
The spirits that haunted churchyard stiles in Manx tradition. The boundary between consecrated and unconsecrated ground was a charged threshold in Manx belief. The keimagh inhabited that boundary, occupying the liminal space where the sacred met the everyday. Part of Moore's comprehensive taxonomy of the Manx supernatural world.
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- Moore, Folk-lore (1891), Ch. IV