Talk:Lihou/Archive 1

2008

Bought in 1995? From whom? The Jade Knight (talk) 09:45, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

According to BBC Guernsey, from the Crown. Man vyi (talk) 12:17, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

Seems someone redundant, as the Crown owns the Bailiwick to begin with, in a sense. The Jade Knight (talk) 10:18, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Crown retains sovereignty. Christopedia (talk) 16:47, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Monks and the Devil

Please cite and clarify if it is historical, or a folk tale created for benefit of tourism. patsw (talk) 20:42, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Does Folklore of Guernsey (De Garis, Guernsey 1975) refer to this as folklore or fact? The text implies the local people actually did believe the monks worshiped the devil. patsw (talk) 13:29, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

From Folklore of Guernsey, p235 in my copy: "But the monks of Lihou were believed to dabble in black magic and to practise Satanism. There are several folk-legends locally to this effect." MacCulloch's Folk lore also references the legends: "Notwithstanding the sanctity of the place, however, the old proverb of "The nearer the church, the farther from God," might at one time have been applied to it, for it is related of one of the priors that he was addicted to the black art. Neither the fear of God, nor the censures of the church, could wean him from the fascinating study of magic, and the Grand-Mele was far oftener in his hands than the Bible or breviary. But wizards, it is well known, have often been the victims of their own art, and so it chanced with the profane Prior of Lihou..." (available online[1]) Man vyi (talk) 16:33, 2 April 2009 (UTC)