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Fairies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Story entitled 'Sithichean Sithein Chaiplig' about a fairy woman, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/141
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Sithichean Sithein Chaiplig' about a man walking past Sithean Chaiplig on a warm summer's day when he hears sounds of churning coming from the hill and feels thirsty. As soon as he thinks this, a fairy woman appears and offers him a cup of buttermilk. The man is afraid and refuses, saying that he does not need it, to which the woman says that if he did not want the drink he should not have asked. She then asks him if he is afraid it will harm him to which he replies that he...
Dates: 1891

Story entitled 'Treabhadh' about working near a fairy hill, 1891

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/136
Scope and Contents

Story entitled 'Treabhadh' about a man who was ploughing near a fairy hill when he heard a voice from inside the fairy hill calling him by name and telling him to keep his 'crom nan gad' ['crann nan gad' - plough] away from fairy hill. He took fright and never went near the hill again.

Dates: 1891