Fairies
Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:
Story about fairy hills, 1891
Story about MacUistean and the fairies, September 1872
Story about Sithein a Bhealaich, 10 April 1872
Story collected from an unnamed female informant at Haclait/Hacklet, Beinn na Faoghla/Benbecula about Sithein a Bhealaich [] a fairy hill which the informant claims she herself once saw alight one night.
Story about sithichean [fairy hills] in Ness district, 27 October 1873
Story about the 'bean chaol chota uaine' [thin [fairy] woman in the green coat], September 1872
Story about the Bible being read after a fairy sighting, September 1909
Story about the Bible being read after a fairy sighting at Eas Ailigan [Eas Alligin, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Story about the prophecy of a young man's death, 1901
Story about the youngest Macintire son at Smearcleit being turned into an excellent piper, c1872
Story about the youngest Macintire [MacIntyre] son at Smearclat [Smeircleit/Smerclate, Uibhist a Deas/South Uist] being turned into an excellent piper by the fairies. The young man's father and brother were celebrated pipers but this son had never played the pipes before. Following his encounter with the fairies, visitors to the house made him play and when he played so well they remarked 'If this be the worst piper of the family what must the others be'.