Departures

Irish Emigration and Supernatural Belief Narratives

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2802776
AutoresTimothy Corrigan Correll (timothy corrigan correll is a visiting lecturer for the History of Art Department at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume136
Fascículo542
Páginas386-412
Data de publicação2023-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
EditoraUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/15351882.136.542.02
OpenAlexW4388525123
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

This article explores how everyday concerns related to Irish emigration are symbolically addressed in a range of supernatural legends documented in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It seeks to illuminate how uncanny tales that feature emigrants departing from Ireland relate to the shared worlds of meaning of those who told and listened to them, showing how legends about affliction and miraculous abundance both draw on and construct cultural scripts. It also considers stories that articulate and reinforce traditional ideas about community members who were said to be abducted by the fairies and living in their midst. This was just one aspect of supernatural beliefs that was condemned as part of a larger rationalist and religious campaign by the Catholic Church and others to root out vernacular customs or "superstition," a theme that informs a number of legends

Aesthetics · Art · Emigration · Epistemology · Irish · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Narrative · Sociology · Superstition · Theme (computing) · Uncanny · Vernacular · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices