Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-20

who dwell In mountain cottages and bring
them blessings Or treat them badly. as the
| case may be. At one time they were
numerous up in these woods.
The best known fairy, however. the
busiest of them all. and an odd mixture
of merrment. mischief and malignity. is
"Pooka.' who is known in England. in
Germany and other places dnder the
name of Puck" Shakespeare describes
him as "a merry wanderer of the night.
who boasts that he can put girdie
| round about the earth in forty minutes.
This capricious goblin is known to every
child in the mountains, and stories are
told of him in every cabin. Carrig- Peeka,
the Pooka's home in a great rock, can
be seen two miles west of Macroom. 1t
overhangs the Sullane river near the
ruins of one of the MacCarthy castles.
This rock Is we'll known as the place
where Daniel O'Rourke started on his
celebrated voyage to the moon on the
back of eagle. and for generations
Pooka made it his headquarters and useo
to play all kinds of pranks upon the peas
ants in that neighborhood.
Everybody knows that the fairies are
merry race and that they enjoy their
gambols in the moonlight. Samuel Lover
wrote pretty song. in which ne de-
scrbes their dancing by brake and by
bower" But the experience OF q 1alry
is not entirely merriment, for in Ireland
bands of rival fairies have been known
to fight each other most desperately
night. and the neighbors are terrified by
their shrill screams and the terrible COM
motion they create.
Hideous Kind Of Hobgoblin.
There is a hideous kind of hobgoblin
called a dullaghan who can take on ana
put on his head at will; in fact, people
generally see him with that useful MEM
Der under his arm or absent altogether.
ic fr nc
on as quietly as possible without dis
turbing him. Sometimes giddy and
frivolous bands of dullaghans have been
seen in graveyards at midnight amusing
themselves by flinging their heads at one
another and kicking them about like
foot balls. Down in this neighborhood
there Is a little lake called Tough CHA
gancan, which means the Lake OF the
Headless Man." because they are In the
habit of haunting it during the long WIN
ter nights and playing their RIDICULOUS
games there.
Cleena is the queen of the fairies. and
once exercised powerful spell over the
peasants around Glengarin, but she IS
board is opposed to her. The teachers
have disputed her power and authority
with such persistence that she cannot
exercise them among the present genera
ton as she did among those OF the past
1t is only among the schoolless commun1-
ties, far back in the rocky giens along
the seashore, where the people cannot
read or write and do not have candies to
illuminate their lonely cabins during the
long winter nights, that she is remem-
bered at all. In more thickly settled
parts of the country where the national
schools stand at three-mile intervals even
the children scott at her and rid1cule her
and say that she may play all the pranks
she likes with them and welcome. Cleena
has been a favorite of the Irish poets
for ages, and appears in many old-fash-
Toned love stories.
''God grant tits not Cleena, the queen, that pur
While / dream of dark groves and O'Donavan's
daughter"
Cleena, Queen Of the Fairies.
Cleena often did a kindly act, and when
Dooling O'Hartigan. the bosom friend of
Morrough the eldest son and heir ap-
parent of Brian Boru, was on his way to
the battle of Clontarf she met him and
tried to persuade him to stay out of the
fight But nothing could induce him to
abandon his friends in such an emer-
gency, particularly as the aged king had
given Morrough the command of the
army that day. Having failed to per-
around O'Hartigan. and warned him
solemnly that he would certainly be
slain If he threw it Off He fought
fiercely all day by the side of his friends
anu 1dOS I0dIIul udVOC dIuOnS the
Danes. The field was strewn with the
bodies of the men he slew. and Nor
rough. observing the slaughter, but being
unable to recognize the cause of it, cried
out:
II hear the blows of O'Hartigan. but
cannot see him.
In order to console and encourage his
friend. O'Hartigan threw off the cloak
that made him invisible. The moment
he stood unprotected an arrow from the
how nf a Dane Sn0ta him In the fenO1a
and he died for neglecting Cleena's words
of warning.
1t is only occasionally that the fairies
interfere with people nowadays. Then
it is to make trouble for innocent men.
who are out later than they should be
and get bewildered in their brains or suf-
fer other lapses that they are not re-
sponsible for. A friend of mine told an
amusing story of his coachman who fire.
quently suffered from the mischievousness
of fairy not long ago. and explained in
the morning:
eff yer honor will behave me, it's the
most mysterious thing that ever happen
ed to mortal man. l was coming
peaceably home along the roadside whin
l saw the strangest sight that mortal
eyes ever looked upon an the ground
seemed to go away from me and funny
little creatures were dancing from one
side of the road to the other. Thin all at
once l fell down. and l didn't know
another thing until / picked myself UP
from out of the ditch in the morning.
drinking was 1t, We say: divil a bit
did taste drop at all. at all, that day.
barring few glasses had with me frinds
on the way home"
Macroom a Pretty Village.
Macroom is pretty village, with a
castle. of which Admiral Penn. father
of the founder Of Pennsylvania. was once
In command. and where William Penn is
said to have been born. The venerable
old pile was built originally in the time
of King John. more than TOO years ago.
has been burned down no less than four
| times. and was besieged and plundered
in the wars of the sixteenth and seven
teenth centuries again and again. 1t now
belongs to Lord Ardilaun, one of the sons
of Benjamin Guinness. the greatest
brewer in the world, who has erect
and occasionally comes here. Lord Ar
dilaun owns so many castles that he
would find it difficult to live in all of
them the same year. He would be kept
moving about like a commercial traveller.
He has a beautiful estate on one side of
Glengarif and shooting lodge on the
other, and his favorite residence Is
stately chateau near Muckross Abbey, on
the shores of the lakes of Killarney.
FAILED TO MOVE AWAY.
So 0verton Goes to Workhouse on