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The Fairy Boat-Race.--'Different old peasants have told me that on clear calm moonlight nights in summer, fairy boats appear racing across Lough Gur
Read record →The Bean-Tighe.[25]--'The Bean-tighe, the fairy housekeeper of the enchanted submerged castle of the Earl of Desmond, is supposed to appear sitting on an ancient earthen monument shaped like a great chair and hence called Suidheachan, the "Housekeeper's Little
Read record →A Collective Vision of Spiritual Beings.--'Some few weeks before Christmas, 1910, at midnight on a very dark night, I and another young man (who like myself was then about twenty-three years of age) were on horseback on our way home from Limerick
Read record →'The Proud Angel fomented a rebellion among the angels of heaven, where he had been a leading light
Read record →The fairies entered largely into the lives and into the folk-lore of the Highland people, and the following examples of things named after the fairies indicate the manner in which the fairies dominated the minds of the people of Gaeldom:--teine sith, 'fairy fi
Read record →She can convert the white water of the rill into rich red wine and the threads of the spiders into a tartan plaid
Read record →MacGregor, who keeps the key to the old churchyard where there is a tomb to Kirk, though many say there is nothing in it but a coffin filled with stones, told me that Kirk was taken into the Fairy Knoll, which she pointed to just across a little valley in fron
Read record →At all events, it seems likely that Kirk was taken ill very suddenly with something like apoplexy while on the Fairy Knoll, and died there
Read record →In the Aberfoyle country, the Fairy-Faith, save for the stories about Kirk, which will probably persist for a long time yet, is rapidly passing
Read record →I had the pleasure as well as the great privilege of setting out from Inverness on a bright crisp September morning in company with Dr
Read record →The Sheep and the Fairy-Hunting.--'I believe people saw fairies, but I think one reason no one sees them now is because every place in this parish where they used to appear has been put into sheep, and deer, and grouse, and shooting
Read record →Fairies.--'My grandmother believed firmly in fairies, and I have heard her tell a good many stories about them
Read record →Highland Legend of the Dead.--As I have found to be the case in all Celtic countries equally, fairy stories nearly always, in accordance with the law of psychology known as 'the association of ideas', give place to or are blended with legends of the dead
Read record →Results of Refusing Fairy Hospitality.--'Two women were walking toward the Point when one of them, hearing churning going on under a hillock, expressed aloud a wish for some butter-milk
Read record →Fairy Legend of the Macleod Family.--'There is a legend told of the Macleod family:--Soon after the heir of the Macleods was born, a beautiful woman in wonderful raiment, who was a fairy woman or banshee (there were joyous as well as mourning banshees) appeare
Read record →The Fairy and the Fountain.--'I had a companion by the name of James Galbraith, who was drowned about forty years ago, and one time he was crossing from the west side of the island to the east side, to the township called Sgalary, and feeling thirsty took a dr
Read record →'At Barra Head, a fairy woman used to come to a man's window almost every night as though looking to see if the family was home
Read record →Generally, the hosts were evil and the fairies good, though I have heard that the fairies used to take cattle and leave their old men rolled up in the hides
Read record →The Fairy-Belt.--'I heard of an apprentice to carpentry who was working with his master at the building of a boat, a little distance from his house, and near the sea
Read record →To the north and south in the golden glow of a September twilight we saw the long line of the Outer Hebrides like the rocky backbone of some submerged continent
Read record →And, as we ate, we talked first about our hard climb in the darkness across the mountains, and through the thick heather-bushes, and then about the big rock which has a key-hole in it, for it contains a secret entrance to a fairy palace
Read record →The question was now asked whether the fairies were anything like the dead, and Marian hesitated about answering
Read record →pbell of Islay, say that his father knew a woman in the neighbourhood who was in a hurry to have her stock of wool spun and made into cloth, and one night this woman secretly wished to have some women to help her
Read record →She thereupon requested him to tell her what the matter might be
Read record →Abduction of a Bridegroom.--'I have heard it from old people that a couple, newly married, were on their way to the home of the bride's father, and for some unknown reason the groom fell behind the procession, and seeing a fairy-dwelling open along the road wa
Read record →eard us discussing the nature and powers of fairies, and at the end of this account he volunteered, without our asking for it, an opinion of his own:--'This (the story just told by him) leads me to believe that the spirit and body [of a mortal] are somehow mys
Read record →The following material, so truly Celtic in its word-colour and in the profound note of sadness and lamentation dominating it, may very appropriately conclude our examination of the Fairy-Faith of Scotland, by giving us some insight into the mind of the Scotch
Read record →'"I have never seen a man fairy nor a woman fairy, but my mother saw a troop of them
Read record →It seems to me that no one of the various theories so far advanced accounts in itself for the Fairy-Faith
Read record →Some persons are certainly more susceptible than others to these unknown forces
Read record →Samuel Leece, then happened to be; and going there through the snow-drifts, I found him with his son and the family within
Read record →Under 'Fairy' Control.--'About fifty years ago,' said Mr
Read record →The Fairy Dog.--'This used to happen about one hundred years ago, as my mother has told me:--Where my grandfather John Watterson was reared, just over near Kerroo Kiel (Narrow Quarter), all the family were sometimes sitting in the house of a cold winter night,
Read record →At Ballasalla I was fortunate enough to meet one of the most interesting of its older inhabitants, John Davies, a Celtic medicine-man, who can cure most obstinate maladies in men or animals with secret herbs, and who knows very much about witchcraft and the ch
Read record →Mickleby and the Fairy Woman.--'A man named Mickleby was coming from Derbyhaven at night, when by a certain stream he met two ladies
Read record →The Manx Fairy-Faith.--'Among the old people of this parish there is still a belief in fairies
Read record →A Fairy-Baking.--'At night the fairies came into a house in Glen Rushen to bake
Read record →Nelson told a story about a Buggane or Fenodyree, such as we already have, and explained the Glashtin as a water-bull, supposed to be a goblin half cow and half horse, and then offered this tradition about Manannan:--'It is said that Manannan was a great magic
Read record →The Manx Fairy-Faith.--'I have much evidence from old Manx people, who are entirely reliable and God-fearing, that they have seen the fairies hunting with hounds and horses, and on the sea in ships, and under other conditions, and that they have heard their mu
Read record →As this strange feeling came over me, I saw coming up the road four figures as real to look upon as human beings, and of medium size, though I am certain they were not human
Read record →(3) A man catches a fairy woman and marries her
Read record →(5) There is a widespread story of the fairy husband procuring for his wife the attendance of a human midwife
Read record →Fairy Midwife and Magic Oil.--'The Tylwyth Teg had a kind of magic oil, and I remember this story about it:--A farmer went to Llangefni to fetch a woman to nurse his wife about to become a mother, and he found one of the Tylwyth Teg, who came with him on the b
Read record →'Tylwyth Teg' Apparition.--'I was coming home at about half-past ten at night from Cemaes, on the path to Simdda Wen, where I was in service, when there appeared just before me a very pretty young lady of ordinary size
Read record →Jones's Vision.--'William Jones, who some sixty years ago declared he had seen the Tylwyth Teg in the Aberglaslyn Pass near Beddgelert, was publicly questioned about them in Bethel Chapel by Mr
Read record →Fairy Cows and Fairy Lake-Women.--'Some of the Tylwyth Teg lived in caves; others of them lived in lake-bottoms
Read record →'Tylwyth Teg.'--'The Tylwyth Teg were considered a very small people, fond of dancing, especially on moonlight nights
Read record →'Tylwyth Teg' Divination.--The second narrative I quote:--'A farmer of this neighbourhood having lost his cattle, went to consult y dyn hysbys (a diviner), in Cardiganshire, who was friendly with the fairies
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