School: Tara Hill (roll number 13689)

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   Women used put needles in baby's clothes or cap to keep the fairies from taking them. They took brides too sometimes. On one occasion a man lost his bride in this manner and he went to the local fairyman to help him to get her back. The fairyman told him to go to a certain gap through which all the fairies would pass at the dead hour of the night. He would see his bride amongst the last of them. He was to provide himself with a knife and as she passed by on horseback he was to cut the saddle girth with one slash. If he failed to cut it with one effort something dreadful would befall himself. The man did as he was advised, succeeded, and won back his bride. From Miss Loughnan Tara Hill - Born 1845

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Miss Loughnan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gorey, Co. Wexford

2. Na Piseoga

   

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   Babies
   New born babies were evil until they were brought to the Church.
   They never smiled until after "Christening."
   A child that does not cry when being baptised will not live.
   Women married if they meet a hare should split their petticoat.

   Death
   When a person is dying the window of the room is opened + holy water is sprinkled from the soul out to the yard.

   Bean Sidhe
   She followed the Canavans and the Noctors.

   Dead Coach :
   The dead coach travelled from Ballinacarrig, Gorey, to Kilgorman graveyard.

   

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