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  1. Fairies and Gold

    CBÉS 0966

    Page 159

    and sold her. For several evenings afterwards he heard voices like children crying and saying "The cow is gone, the cow is sold"
    The man regretted what he had done and returned the money and brought back the cow and left her at the fort until she died.
    In Joe McBrien's Sralahan the servant boy John Fee, Tullydermot found two cows tied at the same stake in the byre. When he told this Joe said it was a sign of a change in the house.
    Soon after Joe's wife became very ill and Joe went to Enniskillen for the Doctor. It was about midnight when he returned and the horse was very hot after the long journey. He told the boy to walk the horse for a time until he cooled a bit.
    As John walked up and down the lane he met several people going
  2. Cures

    CBÉS 0963

    Page 009

    Heart Fever. Rosey Fee who lived in Tullydermot on the Commas road 3 miles from Swanlinbar had the cure of '' heart fever ''
    '' Heart fever '' seemed to comprise a great many diseases of the heart.
    I know this case. Peter Brown worked for us. Dr McBrien examined him and said it was the heart was the cause of the trouble and advised him to avoid excitement etc.
    Then Dr McBrien told me that Peter could not live more than 6 months on account of the condition of his heart valves. He said he'd like the opinion of another doctor so Peter went to Dr Reilly and the two doctors had just the same opinion-
    that the case was beyond any medical skill
    Peter went to Rosie Fee and she examined him and told him his heart was a very bad case but not beyond hope of cure.
    So she gave him her treatment. He had to reach her place before sunrise fasting for 9 mornings and take the stuff she
  3. Folk Tale - The Enchanted Square

    CBÉS 0963

    Page 026

    Some years ago Johnny Fee and I were by the fire talking.
    An old man living near by had been robbed a short time before and the parish priest had condemned the outrage off the altar and had ordered the raiders to make restitution.
    Johnny remarked it wasn't enough for the priest. He should have put them on a tower and left them there invisible till the judgement day.
    I asked Johnny if such could be done and he said '' certainly, '' and it was often done before in olden times.
    That's the only time I have heard an expressed belief which had come down as traditional in the enchanted square for the belief seemed to be the same as the enchanting of Merlin in Tennyson's poem.
    Johnny Fee R.I.P. lived in Tullydermot, Swanlinbar
  4. A Wonderful Belief

    CBÉS 0963

    Page 025

    This account was given me by Johnny Fee (R.I.P.) Tullydermot, Swanlinbar.
    In his house, on November and May eves they always swept the hearth very clean and put bread on a plate with milk in a vessel on
    the hearth as offering to
    '' The Good People ''
    '' Do they ever take it '' ? I asked
    '' That's more than you or me or any man could tell, '' said Johnny
    '' For when they take it, its only the substance of it they take and it looks just the same as before.
    So in the morning we always burn what's left. ''
    That's not done in all the houses but in Johnny's house it had always been done he said