This clipping from a Manx newspaper, Mona’s Herald,  gives us a insight into the early stages of the Gef story’s development. At this point, in the first few months after Gef’s first appearances, he is not yet ‘Gef’ but ‘Jack’ – note, also, the favoured Manx term by which he was (and still is) known on the … Continue reading “Half-mongoose, half-weasel” – yes it’s Jack, the Dalby Spook