Celtic fairy traditions
Mag Mell
Mag Mell is translated as the agreeable or happy plain. Evans-Wentz sets the name beside other designations for an Otherworld approached across the western sea. Narratives give this land beauty, abundance, and an invitation to join deathless company. His claim that it is a subjective realm surrounding ordinary life is his interpretive theory, not the itinerary of every tale.
Also known as Happy Plain
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Principal account
ReportedMag Mell is translated as the agreeable or happy plain. Evans-Wentz sets the name beside other designations for an Otherworld approached across the western sea.
Further detail
ReportedNarratives give this land beauty, abundance, and an invitation to join deathless company. His claim that it is a subjective realm surrounding ordinary life is his interpretive theory, not the itinerary of every tale.
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
; and also Mag Mell, ' The Plain Agreeable (or Happy).' ^ But this western Otherworld, if it is what we believe itOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 366
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0045-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0045-E001-P0366
- Original scan leaf
- 367
- Recorded leaf number
- 367
- Current Reader position
- 362
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Source 2
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
message to him : — * The immortals invite you. You are going to be one of the heroes of the people of Tethra.Open this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Celtic fairy traditions; active reader leaf 366
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0045-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0045-E001-P0366
- Original scan leaf
- 367
- Recorded leaf number
- 367
- Current Reader position
- 362
- Reader verification
- Source-preserving update confirmed