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   Traditions . . Accounts given by Mrs McNamee. Annaverna (18 yrs)
   A friend of hers going on a visit to a neighbours house heard great laughter come down the mountain road. Thinking it was some pilgrimage to Faughart he hid behind a fence and to his great surprise he beheld a crowd of fairies coming down the road. He watched closely and he saw that they were all small men and he had no knowledge of any person whom they were like

   She also said that a Mrs McGailey of the same townland was sick. Some old woman came to the door and told the man on no account to leave the house as the fairies were coming round. The woman becoming worse required a doctor but the husband would not leave the house.
   A neighbour went instead and after the doctor's visit the sick woman recovered somewhat. Then the husband was asked to go home with the doctor but still refused.
   When the neighbours left the house with the doctor there was a great noise in the street and it seemed as if cows in the byre were being killed but still the man would not go out. Well when the neighbours returned they went to the cow house and found the cows as usual chewing their cud. The common belief is that if the man went out the fairies would come in and snatch up the sick woman after substituting another miserable one in her place

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Miss Mary Mc Gailey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Anaverna, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Mr James O' Hare

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Deerpark, Co. Louth

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Namee

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   78

   Address

   Anaverna, Co. Louth