1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Killyon

School: Killyon (roll number 7120)

Location:
Killyon, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brighid, Bean Uí Fithceallaigh
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 338

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0692, Page 338

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Killyon
  2. XML Page 338
  3. XML “The Fairy Doctor”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Fairy Doctor (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    but they did not mind her. In the end she said "My body is mad alive and I'll have to get in". Still they kept on churning and she jumped up at the window and shouted. "Let me in. It was I who took your butter and I'll never do it any more". When she said this they opened the door and she walked over to the fire and took out the colter. "Let it cool" she said "for my body is burning in the very same way and Ill get no relief until that colter cools". When she was a few minutes in there was an improvement in the churning and she was never known to work through the power of the devil any more.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Letty Keegan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clondalee Beg, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Patrick Keegan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clondalee Beg, Co. Meath