fire. The woman of the house turned these out on the table and the fairies were asked over to their supper. They went to the table and got the spoons and forks and all in their hands, but they couldn't put a bit of food in their mouth. They got up from the table in an awful hurry and rushed for the door, but it was shut. Then some of them said, "hie, out in the keyhole, Hie, out in the keyhole. These then got out in the keyhole. The rest of the fairies said "hie, out in the keyhole", but they couldn't get out at all, and they had to stop there until the man of the house let them out.Another night they went into shop and robbed it, and when they were coming away the

she was mad but anyhow they did as she ordered. The coulter was put down in the churn and there was a great roar and a bawl and a little black fellow jumped out of the churn and ran out in the door, and away like a shot out of a gun. They put the lid on the churn again and started to work and it wasn't long until they had plenty of butter.
It was said that the fairies used be taking all the butter in the locality. A lot of the very best of butter sued be seen in the raths and the fairy butter would be seen stuck on posts and walls all around the farm houses.

on her throne again and she spoke "Sir wo have decides to take that hump off your back" The drunkard felt the hump tumbling down off his back and when it fell off he fell on his face on the floor and about forty of the fairies lifted him up again and he found that he was a fine young subtle man and he had a brand new suit of clothes on him and all his pockets were loaded with money, gold, and silver. About twenty fairies caught the hump an dcarries it off and put it up on a shelf and left it there, and the man started for home. When he reaches home the wife didn't know him but he up and tould her all his story and they never naw the wind in the two door from that day out.
Well the news spread rapidly until it came to the ears of another humpy backer man and he came to the man that was cured for advice. This man told him how he was cured and told him also that if he went there to right about twelve o'clock and waits until he'd hear them singing, and when they'd sing "Monday Tuesday, Monday Tuesday,

horribly wrinkled skin, the sunken mouth and the staring eyes. I stopped and looked around as I couldn't believe my eyes. Then while I uttered or tried to murmur a prayer I drew nearer while the priest advanced still nearer and put out his hand slowly. His fingers reached and stroked a face. He drew back his hand with a cry. What he had touched was a face that was as cold as death itself. He then knealt down and said a prayer to speed her soul as she was an old woman who had died by the roadside. Having covered her face we left her there and made for the squire's house. He wasn't too bad, but all his servants were terrified because the accident happened on the very day that he had begun to cut down the trees in the fairy rath. The doctor tended his hurt for a few days and then he was fit to hunt again. All the same he stopped his operation on the fairy raths and replanted the whitethorns and hazels

There was a man wan time and he was passing by an ould rath where there were fairies. Just as he came near the rath he heard music. The grandest music you ever heard. He stood for some time listening and as he was coming away he passed some remark about the music. As soon as he did the fairies came out of the rath and ran after him. Wan of them gave him a bottle of water and they told him to keep shaking it all along on his way home.
He went on and kept shaking the water as they told him, but before he came to his own house he had it all wasted. When he came to his own gate the whole lot was gone.
Just at his own gate there was a car track and in this car track there was a little water. He stooped down to get some water out of the car track, and just as he stooped he fell into the track and was drowned.

On May Eve some people put up a quicken berry branch on the gates and doors to keep the fairies away.
More old people wouldn't like to give a drop of milk away on May Day. They say it would be unlucky.
People long ago used to redden the sock of the plough on May Eve and put it in under the churn, when the churning would be ready.
This was to keep the fairies out of the churning.

There was a girl named Bid Murphy worked at a farmer's place named Sinnotts in Ballyhogue in the Co. Wexford. One evening she went out to milk the cows and there was a hill or a mound in the middle of the field and she saw a whole lot of little fellows dancing on the hill. She knew at once that there were the fairies for she had often heard of them. There were eight of them dancing and two or three little fellows playing the grandest music that Bid Murphy ever heard in all her life.
The music got the better of her and she went right up to the mound where the fairies were sitting and then she saw the king and queen sitting side by side on two mushrooms and they looking on at the dancing.

to look for the bottom of the lamp, for the lamp went out when the bottom fell off it. I was a long time looking for it and at last I got it, a good piece away form the place where it fell off the bicycle. I wouldn't care to travel on that road in the nights, especially if it was a stormy one.There is another place on that raod nearer to Castlebridge and it is also supposed to be haunted, or the fairies are supposed to have a patway straight across the road. There was a man one time left his home at about ten o clock one night to go to the shop for tobacco and he was never heard of afterwards. Some people say that he was taken with the fairies. About a couple of years ago, a motor car went in on the ditch at that particular place, and

mushrooms and went down to the middle of it. When he got there he found a ring of fairies and they were all seated on the mushrooms. He rushed home as fast as he could. When he got up the next morning he went to the same field, and he saw the mushrooms there alright, but he was afraid to touch them. The old people will also tell you that mushrooms will always grow in rings or circles, and that is another reason why they have something to do with the "good people" and there is also a greener patch of grass in that circle than in the rest of the field. People sometimes die after eating mushrooms and the old folk say that the fairies have something to do with such a person

was any of the neighbours trying to play tricks on him. At last things went so bad with him that he heard noises all around the kitchen and then he began to wonder were there really fairies. At last he put the place up for another but nobody would buy it at all, for they heard about the bad luck that the man had in it. So the only thing that he had to do was to take down the house and build it in a different part of the farm. Not long after this he got on fairly well and things prospered with him and he became a wealthy man.
The old folk all say that it is very unlucky to have anything at all to do with the fairies and people should keep away from them as far as far as they could and have

nothing to do with their places of abode.
There is another story told of a man who cut down all the trees on a fairy rath and all the bushes that were growing there as well. About a week afterwards he got a great lightness in his head and then he got pains all over his body and he sent for the doctor and he came and when he examined him he found nothing the matter with him, but the man told him that there was everything the matter with him. He got all weak and pined away and the doctor did all in his power for him and it was no use. Not long after this he died and and the, the doctor couldn't make out what he died of.
So it is very unlucky to have anything to do with fairies.

a standstill, and we heard the next day that a woman in that house had died the night before. So there must be such things as fairies and Banshees. I was down there on my holidays the following year and I was talking to a friend of mine wan night and we were talking about the queer things that we had seen the year before. We were talking about fairies and banshees and everything of that kind, as Fethard is one of the greatest places in the county I'm sure for things of that kind. I started to tell him that I never saw or heard anything in the world that wasn't right until last year and I also told him that I didn't believe in them until then. I told him that I often had

he would let him go if he showed him where the gold was hidden, but the leipreacán was "tough" & wouldn't say. At long last he consented to show them were to find the gold. He told them that there was a big crock of gold under a certain tree 2 fields from the dwelling house, but says he You'll have to bring me with you. If you go without me, you'll find the crock all right, but, there will be nothing in it but bones." The farmer & his wife consulted together & they decided that it was very easy to turn gold into bones. So on the following morning the farmer, carrying the lepreacán in his gabháil and his two sons set out for the tree with spades & shovels & a wheel-barrow. The fairy laughed hearty when he saw the wheel-barrow but said nothing. They were not long digging when they came to the flag. When they had the clay scraped clean off it the farmer got excited. Wait , lads' says he until I give you a hand. He jumped up and went to their aid but he loosened his grip on the lepreacán. 'I doesn't matter now; says he, where je goes. We have it. But when they lifted the flag there was nothing before them but a big pan full of bones. If the man had held his grip on the fairy until the stone was removed they were made for life. Instead of that they were the laughing-stock of the countryside ever after.

the firsht fella, that he heard the sound o' music. He lishtened for a file, an' sure enough it grew louder an' the louder it was growin' the sweeter it was getting. The hunchback was delighted wit it, an' he thought to himsel that maybe they be glad o' a little more help so they war only about have way in their tune when he chimed in along wit them, an' if it was a mad cow that jusht stharted ta low at that minit, there couldn't have come agreater change over the choir. The hunch backs voice was loud an' courshe, an' when he stharted the fairies had ta sthope. He kep' on wit his song, but when he had finished he was lifted up off the road, an' brought inta the fort. All the fairies got round him, an' they bet him with bohalanens, until he was black an' blue in the hide an' when they had enough bet on him, the said that in ordher that he might remember that night that they'd give him atoken o' it.
They then clapped the hump on his back, that they tuck off the other man the night before, an' he went home a far worshe case than he came for he had two humps on his back.

arís un mar a ndintí é seo mar leigheas do-na daoine maithe - na fairies. Siné mo scial-sa agus
scial ná fuil ao’ bhriag un. Bhí aithne agam ar a’ mnaoí seo chómh maith is tá agam ar
mo lámh dhéis nó ’bhí agam ar mo mháthair agus do lonnuig sí annsan i bhfad th'réis an leighis sin a dhianamh dómh-sa a dtig fear oibre a bhí againn taobh linn agus níl aonne go gcloisfeadh sí go mbeadh aon touch fairy stroke aici ná beadh sí fe'n-a dhéin, agus dhin sí muireachtaint ar sin go h-áirschint é an bhean bhocht - ní h-eolach dom go raibh aon teacht isteach eile ar a’ saoghal
aici ach é.

Long ago a great game among children was "tig". One child would "tig" another and say at the same time:
"Tig toe, blast blow
follow the fairies
wherever they/you go"
If you weren't able to return the tig you would be taken off by the fairies.

again and bring her in somethin but he said he wasn't gettin any pay for his work so and he wasn't goin to do any more. She told him he must do it and told him to bring the horse again. He asked her would it make any difference if he walked and she said it didn't. So he set out on foot. He went straight to his own house and never came back, and the fairies never troubled him afterwards.

in a graveyard. He got in under a flag and lay down and started to cry. It wasn't long until the fairies came along to hold their meeting and they sat up on the flag over their heals.
The king spoke. "We are very clever people" says he. "We know more than the ordinary people". The kings daughter is blind and no one can cure her. If she washed her eyes in the well at the bottom of this graveyard she would be cured". Bill began to listen. Soon afterwards the fairies went away, and Bill stumbled down to the bottom of the graveyard and found the well. He washed his eyes with the water and he was cured. Then he got a bottle and filled it with the water and brought it to the king's palace. The kings daughter was sitting on a chair in front of the palace. Bill slob up to her and rubbed her eyes with the water and immediately she saw.
She was so delighted that she bought Bill into the palace and gave him a

“Well talking about fairies how is it that there are no such things as fairies in any other country in the world." Begor I don't know" says I. "Well I'll tell you" he says.
"Long long ago there was a fallin' out above in Heaven whatever bedamned happened and I think it was Lucifer that was the cause of it all. He made out that he was son and heir to the heavenly throne, and he thought that the time would never come for him to rule so he rebelled and like all the other divils like him he thought he'd take the throne by force.So a battle started in heaven. Lucifer called all his subjects and St. Michael called all his together. Well wan third I hear of all the angels in heaven lined up behind Lucifer and another third lines up behind Michael
Well another kind took no part at all in the fight so they remained neutral. So the war started then between St Michael and Lucifer and begor a man it lasted from sunrise to sunset, and in the battle