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  1. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man one time and he was coming home wan night...”

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    face and there was a limp on one side of it about as big as a good sized football. He got an awful fright and he didn't know what to do so he went to the priest and told him what he was after (serving?) and the priest told him not to plough the rath for he said it was very unlucky to have anything to do with the fairies so the priest said some prayers and then laid his hand on the swelling on the man's face and told him that he need not worry that he would soon be alright. He also told the man that he would banish the fairies for seven years and that they wouldn't trouble him anymore. So the man went home and he soon was alright. The next morning his face was back to normal.
    The priest banished the fairies not long after this

  2. Whirlwinds

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    Whirlwinds or "She-gees" as the people in Wexford call them are supposed to be the fairies travelling around from place to place. The fairies used to travel in them long ago and some people say that they travel in them still. It is courted very dangerous to be in the say of a She-gee for a person could be disfigured for life or if it was a small child that was in it, it might be taken away with them and a fairy changling left in the place of it. When a whirlwind comes along a person should throw what-ever they had in their hand after it. supposing it was their pipe or their purse or whatever it would be, if not they might be disfigured or wouldn't have any luck for seven years.
    There was once a man out in a hay field

  3. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday Hunchback

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    Sarne
    Jas Coleman - Wed. Thurs. Frid. Hunchback
    There was a fairy rath over there in Tonbay and the fairies used always be singing & playing a melodeon in it & it used to be a shortcut to the town & this night there was a man coming with a harp on his back from the town drunk & these fairies were singing Wed. Thurs. & Friday (that was the song they were singing). & the lad said "Ay & Saturday" & they brought him in & took the harp off of his back. Some short time after another fellow with a harp heard tell of this man losing his harp & he went off to this man & he told him the way got off his harp & he went to the Trun & he got a sip of drink & he coming back & they were

  4. The Fairy Changeling

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    I have heard another story of a fairy changeling similar to the one in the beginning of this book. It is the story of a man and his wife that were married for a long time and had no family. When they were about five years married this man, Murphy was his name also, ploughed a field in which was a fairy path. Nothing happened for a long time but about a year afterwards a child was born to them. It was exactly the same size at a year old as it was when it was born. At two months old it was able to walk and has its nose in everybody's business, and at six months old it had all it's teeth. It could never be got to sleep but would slip awake almost all

  5. The Fairy Changeling

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    it is certainly a fairy changeling you have for a son. Murphy was greatly troubled when he heard this for he had only one son. "I'll tell you how you'll find out whether it is a fairy changeling or not" says he "when you go home tell him that Gort na Pisha is ablaze" Murphy went home with the iron welded. When he got inside says he to the child. "Gort na Pisha is ablaze, Gort na Pisha is ablaze" The child looked at him in a terrible fright. "Oh that's awful" says he "as sure as shot me little big on bellows are burned" and away with him out through the window and off in the direction of Gort na Pisha.

  6. Fairies

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    life. There is a field in Bannow called Chapel field and there is a fairy rath in it and the people say that the fairies live there many years ago. The luaracawns were often seen creeping around it on the grass smoking their little pipes. There is another rath in Ballygar and it was in the middle of a big field. The field used be ploughed all around it but no one would think of ploughing the rath. There was one man however would think of ploughing it. His father told him not to have anything to do with it, but he wouldn't listen to him. He yoked the horses and he drove them into the field and right around the rath. When he went around it once he got an awful pain in his head and he was never the better of it.

  7. (gan teideal)

    “I heard another story about the fairies.”

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    I heard another story about the fairies. There was a man living near Enniscorthy some years ago. He was a farmer. He used to wonder every morning why the horses in the stable would be so tired and life at all in them. He used to wonder at this for he used to feed them well. He didn't know what to do. One night he said to himself that he would stay up all night in the stable and watch them. He remained there until twelve o clock, and then he heard a great noise outside and then the stable door opened and in ran a whole crowd of fairies and jumped up on the horses ten or eleven of them on every horse, and galloped out in the stable door and away all in the space of a couple of minutes

  8. (gan teideal)

    “I heard another story about the fairies.”

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    The poor farmer didn't know what to say or do. He stopped there in the stable until five o clock and then the cocks began to crow. Immediately he heard a great noise of horses galloping outside and the stable door opened and all the fairies came in on the horses beating them frightfully. The fairies tied the horses and ran out and away in the direction of the rath. The poor farmer was in an awful state when he saw the poor horses and panting and perspiring. So he went to the priest and told him all about it. The priest came over and prayed over the horses and told the man that everything would be allright. The next morning the man went out to have a look at the horses and found them alright and he

  9. There was another man going out to shoot wan morning at four o clock...

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    across the fields and the fairies went ahead and he saw no more of them or got no further account of them.

  10. Child Taken by the Fairies

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    Years ago there was a child taken away by the fairies in Barmoney and there was something like a child left in its place.

  11. (gan teideal)

    “The dead coach used to travel from Ballyhogue...”

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    Bid Murphy wondered at herself that she wasn't more afraid of these people. But she found that she couldn't go away from them no matter what she'd do. When they were done dancing a great whirlwind came and took away all the fairies and Bid Murphy as well. She was kept with them for nine days and nine nights, and then a whirl wind came and all the fairies and Bid Murphy were landed back on the mound in the field again. Bid then went home and got in the bed and she got very sick. The priest and doctor were sent for and they did all they could for her but it was no use for nine days after she coming home she passed away. So the "Good people" ar'n't good sometimes.

  12. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man one time and he had a hump on his back.”

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    There was a man one time and he had a hump on his back. It was on his back from his infancy. One night he was out late and he was passing through a great wood when a crowd of fairies followed him, and they were saying “Dé Luain, Dé Máirt, Dé Céadaoin”. They were all saying this together and saying over and over again. Then they stopped altogether when they came near this fellow with the hump on his back, and then he said “Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday”. When he was finished speaking the hump left his back and he was the same as any ordinary man. He looked around and he could see no fairies at all so he went home, and you may be sure that he was delighted with himself, and all his friends were delighted and they were all gathered in his house that night and they danced away ‘till morning. Sometime

  13. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man one time and he had a hump on his back.”

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    after this, this man was coming home from town and he was talking to another man on the road, and this man had a hump on his back. He started telling him how he got rid of his hump and the other man was delighted, but he was a bit nervous of fairies, so he went to the nearest public house, and got a few drinks and came back and didn’t care where he was going. He went ahead anyhow until he came to a wood and he went into it. It wasn’t long until he heard the fairies coming along after him and they were saying “Dé Luain, Dé Máirt, Dé Céadaoin” and they were all saying it together. When they came up to the him they stopped and he said Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday. He was a little merry and didn’t know what he was saying. When he was finished talking he heard a

  14. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man wan time and he was a bit silly in his mind.”

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    this place. The boys got there before him and had made up a little man about a foot an' a half in height dressed in red, with a knee breeches on him and tiny little buckle shoes, and a long whisker and it comin' to a point at the top. Then they put a long paper cap on his head an' that was also comin' to a point. They had explained to him beforehand that this was the kind of a fairy that would have the money. These two fellows then went to the rath with this homemade fairy and a piece of black thread about thirty yards in length. They sat down on this mound and it was all covered with bushes, or there were bushes all around it an ' a space in the centre. So the men got into the bushes at each side of the mound and each of them had an end of the thread and

  15. (gan teideal)

    “There is another story told of a man who was always drinking.”

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    around smoking their pipes and chatting. The dance went on all night. In the middle of the night Tom a great big feed of the finest stuff he ever ate in all his life. Tom was kept in the rath for three weeks and he lost his memory and didn't know where he was at all. One night the fairies all went away and in the morning they came back and Tom noticed that they had a child with them. He looked close at the child and then he knew it was his son that was in it. Immediately his memory and his senses came back to him and he began to realise the position he was in. Tom saw where they put the child, and then noticed that there were five or six other children there also. The next time the fairies went out Tom went to go look for the hole where he came in and after some

  16. (gan teideal)

    “There is another story told of a man who was always drinking.”

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    home, and then she knew well enough that it was only a fairy changeling that was in the cradle. Tom went over to the cradle with the other child in his arms and when the lad in the cradle saw them coming over to them he took to bawling and screeching and got out of the cradle and flew out in the door and away to the rath. Tom and his wife then lived happy enough for a while, the fairies never troubled him after that. That was a good lesson for Tom. He took the pledge again and swore that he would never break it, but misfortune was in store for him. About a year afterwards he was at a fair and he sold six or seven cattle and when he was coming home he went into a shop on the side of the road to get something that he forgot. I was only by mistake

  17. (gan teideal)

    “I was comin' home wan night and when I came as far as Jem Croy's Cross...”

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    I was comin' home wan night and when I came as far as Jim's Croy's Cross I saw a great green light and it in a kind of a circle Half of the circle was in the road and the other half was inside the field. I didn't know what to do whether I ought to pass it or not, and I stood there for some time, an' the light seemed to come up out of the ground in small little flames. Anyhow I blessed myself and went on and when I was goin through it, it changed into white and rose up in great flames and went off down in the bogs. I don't know what the meaning of it is except it has somethin' to do with fairies, for it is said that there was a fairy rath not far from that place. Anyhow I got home safe that night, and I don't care.

  18. Head Left Crooked

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    One night a young man was going to a dance in Ballycumber & he was going through Rathcot for a short cut when he heard the lovliest of music & singing in the rath which was all lit up. He saw a girl there that had been taken by the fairies & he went in & danced with her & had a great time. The fairies came to him with grapes and all kinds of fruit & eatables & wanted him to take them but she told him not to eat anything or he would be kept. She told him to go away & not to look back until he had crossed the

  19. A Legend of Ballindoon Castle

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    sound o' music reached his ear, an' he believed it came from the fort.
    He listhened a while longer, in' sure enough there was music an' singin' an' it was goin' on in the fort. It grew louder an' louder every minnit, an' at lasht it swelled up into agrand chorous, an' the hunchback was so spellbound at the grandeour o' it all, is that he could hardly refrain himsel, from joinin' in.
    However he' said he'd have patience, an' wait until the fairy choir id have finished (for he was sure it was a fairy choir, for no eartly wan was ever is good is it) So when the lasht notes o' their song was ended, he ruse on his voice himsel, an' the sweethesht day the thrush every sang, she couldn't howld acandle ta the way the hunchback sang that night.
    Twas now the fairies turn to feel spellbound, (that it if they could feel that way) an' the hunchback hadn't the song finished, when he was lifted off his feet off the road, an' before he had time ta say 'ma' they had him within in the fort, an' him sittin beside the chief harper. They got into him, an' there wastne asong that ever he knew, but he hadn't ta sing for them, an' when he was goin' home in the mornin they tould him, that in repayment or his nights entertainment that they'd give him any

  20. (gan teideal)

    “There was once a man living in the parish of Adamstown.”

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    really is a fairy. You will know then what he is and the best thing you can do is to redden the poker and ram it down his ugly throat, for these fairy-changelings are not lucky in anybody’s house” says Ellen Liath.
    The poor woman was very troubled but anyhow she went home and did as Ellen Liath advised her. She put down put down the big fire and put on the big pot full of water. She sat down then and began blowing the fire her best and if water was ever red hot it surely was. The little fellow was sitting up in the cradle watching her. When she had the water hot she got the dozen of eggs and broke them on a plate and threw away the yokes and whites before the