IV (1) There was once a man and he had a 'cruit'. He went out one night in November. He was going along by a fort and he heard the fairies singing "Monday, Tuesday" (really Dia luain, Dia Máirt). The man said "Wdnesday." Then the fairies caught the man and brought him to the king. They said to the king: "what will we do with this man?" The king said to the fairies: "what did he do?" The fairies said he spoiled (improved recte) their song. The king took the 'cruit' off the man.
When he was going home he met another man with a "cruit", and he (the other) him how did he cure his
'cruit'. He told him.
So that manw ent to the fort and he heard the fairies singing the same thing as the other man heard. He said "Wednesday [Thursday]. The fairies caught him and brought him to the king. The king asked the fairies what did he do to them and they said he spoiled their [song...

it one of the fairies cut off her head of hair. At that moment all the fairies disappeared. The girl looked round and when she saw her head of hair all cut off she ran after the fairies but could not find them.
After a few days the girl went home. She got a great surprise. She found her father dead so she began to cry. After a short time she went over to where she had been with the fairies. But they were not there. The girl was very sad because she had no one to tell her story.
When she went over again to where her father had lived at one time the fairies had the hut locked. They had her father buried somewhere near by. But the girl did not know it. She stayed in her fathers house for a while. One early morning the fairies came to her house and brought her off with them. The girl was never seen from that day to this. People who are travelling at night see this girl and the fairies. They are said to be ghosts.

Stories are told about fairies in every country in the world. The fairies were once angels in heaven. These angels did not fight for the bad or the good angels. So go did not cast them down to hell. He did not sent them up to heaven but He sent them down to the forts here on earth to live as fairies forever.
A fairy is about the height of a mans thumb. He wears a red coat and cap and buckles on his shoes. A fairy named the Leipreachan does the shoe-making for the other fairies. The fairies are very friendly.
There are several kind of fairies. The Banshee, the Phuca and Will-O-The-Wisp. The Banshee is a cry heard at night. The Phuca is a fairy horse that can be seen in the field at night.
Will-O-The-Wisp is a fairy light you would see at light. If you followed it you would go astray. It was often said that people were walking up and down fields until morning. The forts in which the fairies live in are situated in fields. If a farmer had a fort in his field he would not plough it for the old people say it is not lucky.

Fairies live in forts woods and other places. Forts are round and there are a lot of trees in them. There is a round wall around the trees and a little gap on the sheltered side to go in and out. The fairies have a special place in each fort for eating and dancing. Sometimes if the forts were near each other they would use one for eating and the other for dancing. Fairies are minders of gold and big cats with long ears and long tails stay with the fairies and do what the fairies tell them.
Once Micky Sheedy dreamed that there was gold between two forts, O Shea's and Downes's, and that he would find it while the people were at Mass. When he went to look for it the fairies came from both forts and told him he should go to the Church which was about three miles away for three mornings and he should not speak to anyone even if it was his father until he had his breakfast eaten.
Jerry Keane of Grossmore [?] was a man that was in league with the fairies. He would go to bed for six months and he wouldn't eat his meals in the presence of anyone. When he got the food to eat he wouldn't eat it but if the

One Winters night a woman and her family were seated around the fire joking and telling fairy stories about the fairies having power to take people away and bring them to Dún Hill and such places and leading the people to believe that it was dead they were. This woman's husband was dead and she said half jokingly that her husband could be in Dún Hill yet as good as ever and enjoying himself. The story says that the fairies hear everything that is said about themselves especially what this woman said, accusing them of taking her husband. As soon as the fairies heard it, they did their best to capture her for her talk. The queen of the fairies made an order to go at once and think of a plan to bring her in. They gathered all the

fairies in those raths and forts. Lights also are seen in them. Long ago people were often seen carried away by fairies into these forts. It is a bad thing to go escorting another person for people very often were put astray when coming home. The people of Ireland believe very much in fairies.

one. It is a high bit of land surrounded by bushes and briers. It is never ploughed because it would not be right. It is a place where fairies live. There were people living in a house one side of the fort and it was haunted with fairies. Nobody takes brambles out of the bushes because they belong to the fairies.

There was once a man living near Castlehackett. One day there was a fair in Castlehackett and the man was going there with sheep. He went very early in the morning and he met fairies on the road. They followed him all the way to the town and there was none of his comrades there but the fairies. He was a long time around the town but there was no one there but the fairies. After a while the man got very angry and one of the fairies stuck his stick into one of the mans eyes and he saw all his comrades at the fair.

the fairies he followed.

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Long ago the old people used to be talking about fairies and where they live. There is a lios at Ashbrook and at Lissean. The fairies used to change twice a year, on May eve and on November eve. When they are changing if they met any good looking person they would take them and change them into fairies.
When the people used to be saving the hay if a breeze came and blew up the hay they people say that the fairies were passing. If the Ban Shee was heard crying near a house the people say that there was someone dying or going to die soon.

In this school district there are many "Fairy Forts" such as Lisduff and Raheen. In ancient times fairies lived in Lisduff. The fort is about a hundred yards from my house. Long ago the fairies used to come out at night and spend many hours hurling. They were small men about three feet in height. When the people in this district used to be hurling the fairies often came along and played with them. The fairies had horses of their own or in some cases they used to come to the houses of the people in the district and take their horses away. In the middle of the night they would leave back the horses and they would be black with sweat. There is an old fort in Walshe's field which is in this district. People say that a black cat used to be seen there. It was said that he was minding a pot of gold.

10. One night when Ml. Shaughnessy's grandfather (of Lisanacody, Eyrecourt) was coming home from a fair he had to pass by a lis. When approaching it at about 1/4 mile distance he heard much singing and laughing. On coming to the place he saw a crowd of fairies playing. He ran for his life and all the fairies after him, - all along thro' fields, and across ditches and roads. When a few fields from his home he heard a cock crow, and on turning around he saw that the chase was over, and that the fairies had disappeared. It is said that fairies cannot be out after cock-crow. On reaching home he was exhausted, and in the morning related this strange story to his family. None of them ever passed by that lis again after that.

Over forty years ago a woman named Nellie Conway lived in Heathlawn. The remains of her house are still to be seen. She used to go in the fairies. My father often went up to her house with milk. When she was in the fairies there was always another woman left in her place. The fairies used to beat her - and then she used to run away. She used to have to name the days of the week before she could tell anything about the fairies: if she did not do this they would hear what she was saying about them.

the cow last night the fairies would have it in the morning but when he left the cow the fairies brought her back to him.

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was "taken" by the fairies.

There was once a father and mother who had two children. The father died and the fairies stole away the children. After a year or two the fairies stole away the mother and brought her to an island where her children were. She had to wash a basket of clothes every week. A fairy man used to come every Thursday with a basket of clothes to wash. There was an old fairy minding her for fear she would go home. He had only one eye. He followed her every place. His name was Dall Glick. One day as he was watching her ironing she struck him in the other eye and blinded him. There were two magic rods in the room. One day when the fairies ? were gone she got the rods and her children and went home. They had to cross a sea and the rods opened away before them. When they (home) reached home the fairies followed them. The mother and children had to throw holy water and dirt to hunt them away. When the fairies were gone the woman said "Put down the kettle and make tay and if we don't live happy that we may."

Long ago a woman was going to a market, and she passed by a 'lios' on her way. A wee man came out of this 'lios' and told her to go in, and nurse the baby. This the woman did. When she went into the 'lios' there was a coat of straw on the floor. It seemed to her as a house built of mushrooms. She nursed the baby, and then went out the tiny door. When she went outside, she saw a great many fairies, and they dipped their fingers in water that was in a tub nearby, and rubbed it on their eyes. The woman rubbed some water on her eyes also. Then she went her way to the market. When she reached the market, she saw the fairies that she had seen in the 'lios'. Those fairies were going around the town eating crakers and stealing the people away, and leaving others in their places. Not another one saw the fairies only this woman.

There was once a man who used to be out very late at night, and he had a hump. One November night he was out very late and he had to pass a fort and he heard fairies singing "Dé Luain. Dia Máirt". The man said "Dé Céadaoin". The fairies came out and brought him in before the king. The king asked the fairies what he did wrong. They said he taught them a new word and the king took off the hump and the man was very pleased.
There was another man with a hump in the village and he said he would go the next November night. The man was out very late and he heard the fairies singing "Dé Luain Dé Máirt agus Dé Céadaoin" and the man said "Diardaoin, Dia h-Aoine, Dé Sathairn", and the fairies ran out and brought him into the fort and brought him before the king.
The king put the two humps on him and he went home very sad.

A long time ago a man was out visiting very late one night and he was walking across the fields and he came to a wall and a great many fairies came up and took him away to a house. The man had a hump and he asked the fairies to take it off him because he heard that they took a hump off a man before. The fairies took the hump from him and hung it up behind the door. Another man was out visiting and he had a hump also. He met the fairies and they brought him to a house and he asked them to take it off him. Then they took the other man's hump and put it on top of his own.