School: Baile Uí Chorráin, Eóchaill (roll number 7441)
- Location:
- Baile Uí Chorráin Theas, Co. Phort Láirge
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Háirdín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0640, Page 316
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- Another name for the bean sidhe is the Bibe. People say she is a woman dressed in white and she has long hair, and she is always combing it.
She is heard before anyone dies, and when you would hear her you would think she would be miles away, and the cry she would leave would shake every place around. It is a lonely wailing cry.
People say that it is all the people with O's and Macs before their names she follows.
There was a man coming home one night and he met the Bibe, so he made a short cut across a wood and he came out at a cross road and the Bibe was there before him.(continues on next page)
