The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-03-26
FAIRY TALES OF IRELAND
Collected N the Original Irish from the Lips
Of Irish Story Tellers.

tcpyrtets. 1898. BY J,rsniah cayti".

r,. r.,r,e. or R.bopsiu and Elizabeth Shea.
when the company came 70, my room on the
following evening the host brought 2 ionrsa
man. a visitor from Dlngue. VINO ns u .uen n
good deal about ghosts and fairies, 49,.
When III b: hid Sfdc Dn NJ t sHG4 lhe STORY tns p 81 hsS SfaGEs
COWS ~ promisod to open the present session
with = tale which ~ know to be true. for the
9 fEs tale " Was called forth y question con.
cer rman q n ssems, o%S eaFryins 'a away ifivTirne
people and leaving su5stitutes In place OF
them. It vh seems Is. th Ssr. taese bs spSs'i aWs, ARE ARE
marriaeeablc young women. When a married
woman is removed u diseased counterfeit IL
siole to a } Iiviss n i%il nlsSs, Of M the eh hh i IS nut IN II
tho cradle. The substitute seems to the par
tie inity vision the iraud appears in its true
form.l
About thirty years ago. said the old man.
there lived in n village near Rahonain Castle
a man named James Kivane. n stepbrother OF
my own. and he married a woman cnlle |
Elizabeth Shea. Three or four nights. utter
her second child was born Kivane's wife. who
was attended by her own mother and her moth
er.in-law. woke and saw the bod on tire. She
called to tho mother. who was there at the bed
side. but had fallen asleep. Tho mother
bprang up. and. turning toward the hearth.
saw II cat with the face OF n man on her. and
was frightened. but she had no time TO look
longer ut tho cnt. When she had the fire
quenchcd sho looked for the cat. hut not n
trace Of her could they find in the house. and
they never caught a sight Of her again.
Eve days later the young child died. and
tlrt 9 or four days after that the woman had u
terrible pain In her foot. 1t swelled to n great
size. and whe.e the swelling was tho skin
looked like the bnrk of g, tree. The poor
priest many Times. and spent money for
iuasses. They offered one priest, twenty,
pounds ,Sl -. to "%r !, her ,es hut he s1 I'd 1 man, 4
AFRAID u getting a fairy stroke himself, 49,.
around it once. The woman was a year anda
that horses ana carriage were moving around
the house, every night. but she had no khowi-
The mother went to an old woman. an herb
doct.,r; AND begged her to come and cure nor
dnnE sas e !! s" s. soSi said the woman "but IL 1
do you must Jet some other one OF your family
g! S On pi ms al II the hes Sons and daughters were mar
ried and had families Of their own. the mother
said she had no one she could put in place. Of
herself. ~ rope which was put hanging above
the cd. When tired and she could hold no
Iem,.in. sSf n w suilsr Iis dixie ike liz ell T y ss wG'n Ss,
lore she died. She told her friends that 1t was
no usa to give her remedies or pay money .or
On the night that the mother saw the cat
hearth. kivane,s wife was taken by the fairies
and put in Rnhonain Castle to nurse a young
Nobody could tell who the sick woman was.
but whoever, she was she died; and the b%dy
vas r. swollen and drawn b-o M2 that the fo onG
xSon 1o = year iof a ! so. .h' se sepsrr n f bine H.n Vent
e co n sA, up ~ T. h'sMia aSehy. A' "Wh 's'e DO o' you Riivosa
A: 'in bisrie. said Fat Mahonrv.
DO You know Families at Kahonain named
.ho Id9;n fSid mnni / AGO '.kivHn0's vito died
Well. said tho strange man. :! have o
mpessags for YOU to tho parents o. tnnt w1 oman
after sunset. She lives In n fairy fort that 4.
the woman: About nine months ago potatoes
and milk were PVT out, on tho dresser for one
before the man came this woman was seen go;
Ing to the dresser and eating the. potatoes and
srlnt tns, the 10, a mi5k; a she mon si'p fef crsT i hs sGs con4:
age 10 speak to iior. When | spoke she told
me that her father: m"tler; husband. e shhai
she wss three months in h"hOnain; nursinG
a eng 'Ra aS"' to w' the IN tort + : ON HSs ' "iscf
where am Living soo row. IN tnd Lis qnft VET
said sh". but at the end Of seven years I'll be
forced to eat and drinE unless somebody saves
me. | cannot escape alone
When Mnhony came home TO DlnRle ne went
straight TO Ranonuin and told the woman's
friend, all that the stranIe man had told him.
She had told the man. too. how her friends
must come with four men and a horse and car:
that she would meet them;
another neiahgorinG man volunteered to go to
!ismore st but t. KiEnng % wou'a Ar , 81 tST no m naa a
irp VA afarfa1 and went To Tho priest to take
us in every way, to stay at home; He was
liz. people too much knowledge Of The other
world. and sure then nobody would boilsye
my going alone. and i didn't;
mn'riei the seconi time. for sho sent, word /
him that she mint care, she would live with
LEX a"lhsr and Ter :, child; EvS%T y.O 1 r ssGledd
T'Iileeman named Bat GConnor was going
from i.ismore to Dingle. tho woman appeared
going to pi'nsIe. and he said he was. She told
hin then II he wanted to do her, any good or
CAV. their nnmes) and tell them that they had
iss loo g a sa !. ,. Sss is.Ey Io0f H. 50 rs ssT; ID b Ps%T;
friends what She hal said. oGoHnor. how:
Eiv"ne.s second wife weat to 0'Connor and
DTlU6u MIN Y - but III Holt. n'ic var
he was silent. and everything cooled down
. glin.
that time the woman's father say her one
ket ami was about q mile beyond DinGle. she
walked nearly u mile with him. but didn't talk.
On the following day he had to take to his bed,
and WAS blind for seven or eight yenrs. ITO
kept the he'd most Of the time till, lie died..
During, the couple Of days before he lost his
sight Shea saw the daughter come In and give
. blow 70 her child, which died strangely, soon
after. Neither priest nor doctor could tell
ABOUT the IN the child died shea's second
wito got sick, and has not MIXED u COW nor
swept the house since. She has not gone to
mas or market these twenty years. She
Keeps the bed now. and will keep 1t while
she lives. She has no pain and y not suffering
she had q fine young girl OF q daughter. but
she got u blow and died two days after. She
has three sons. but Elizabeth shoa has never
done them any harm.
rs there a. story about the beginning OF
RahonAin Castle p asked /.
There is." said the man from Dingle. and.
though am not good Mt stories. Illdo the best