Jimmy Squarefoot
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In Manx folklore, Jimmy Squarefoot is a legendary bipedal pig-headed creature living on the Isle of Man.[1]
Folklore
[edit]Jimmy Squarefoot is typically described as a man with the head of a pig with large tusks or as a large white boar.[1][2] He is thought to have once been ridden by an unnamed Foawr, a type of stone-throwing giant, living on Cronk yn Irree Lhaa who may have been the husband of the Caillagh ny Groamagh.[1][3] Cailleach and her husband, after a fight, vanished and left their pet boar, which later became Jimmy Squarefoot.[3]
Jimmy Squarefoot is said to live in the hills of Arbory and Malew, mainly near the bridge over the Grenaby river.[2][3][4] He is said to have a cave near South Barrule, and takes humans through it to the underworld.[2] Jimmy Squarefoot may also be linked with the story of a buggane in Rushen which was able to transform between a man and a black pig.[3]
The name "Jimmy Squarefoot" was also used by sailors to refer to the devil during the late 1800s and early 1900s.[5][6]
Popular culture
[edit]Jimmy Squarefoot is also the name of Monster in My Pocket #80 as well as a character in the 2007 PlayStation 3 video game Folklore.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]Sources
[edit]- Douglas, Mona (1930). "Animals in Manx Folklore and Song". Jubilee Congress of the Folk-lore Society, Sept. 19-Sept. 25, 1928: Papers and Transactions. Folklore Society (Great Britain). Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- Gill, W. Walter (1929). "Place-names and Place-lore". A Manx Scrapbook. Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith Ltd. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- Gill, W.W. (1963). "Dialect Words and Phrases". A Third Manx Scrapbook. Bristol: Arrowsmiths. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- Harper's Young People. Harper & Brothers. 1892. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
- Whitney, William Dwight (1910). The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language and a Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Art, Etc., Together with Atlas of the World. Century Company. Retrieved 25 August 2026.
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