Celtic fairy traditions
Bucca
Henry Jenner challenges a classification that puts Bucca among several fairy tribes. He calls Bucca a deity and records fish offerings left on the beach at Newlyn. The discussion considers Black Bucca and the rarer White Bucca, while proposing comparisons with other names and traditions. Those linguistic parallels are tentative analysis rather than evidence of one universal being.
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Principal account
ReportedHenry Jenner challenges a classification that puts Bucca among several fairy tribes. He calls Bucca a deity and records fish offerings left on the beach at Newlyn.
Further detail
ReportedThe discussion considers Black Bucca and the rarer White Bucca, while proposing comparisons with other names and traditions. Those linguistic parallels are tentative analysis rather than evidence of one universal being.
Context & interpretation
Evans-Wentz combines named informants, manuscript narratives, and his own psychical theory in a 1911 survey. This entry preserves those distinctions: collected belief and literary tradition do not establish the physical existence of an Otherworld.
Original passages
Source 1
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
pro- perly is but one, is a deity not a fairy, and it is said that at Newlyn, the great seat of his worship, offeringsOpen this page in the book
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Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 195
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Source 2
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
the Ahriman of Slavonic dualism, and Bucca-widn (White Bucca), which is rarer, though the expression does come into a St. LevanOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 196
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
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- IMJ-0045-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0045-E001-P0196
- Original scan leaf
- 197
- Recorded leaf number
- 197
- Current Reader position
- 192
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