A hand-crafted pewter brooch featuring the 'cabbyl ushtey', the water-horse from a Manx folklore tradition. Made by St. Justin’s in Cornwall, England. Comes in satin lined presentation box.

6 cm x 4.5 cm.

The ‘cabbyl ushtey’ or ‘water-horse’ was said to rise from it’ home in the deep pools of the Isle of Man and would take the form of a beautiful white horse and tempt weary travellers to ride on its back, only to disappear with them into the depths, from which they would never return.