Study of the Folklore on the Coasts of Connacht, Ireland

TRANSLATION " AND CHANGELINGS.Probably long before the " dukedom " of Theseus, when the famous weaver was " trans lated," men and women were reputed to be carried off by spirits to supernatural palaces, caves and wilds.In my study of Co. Clare such stories were nearly absent, but they are far more plentiful in the islands of Connacht, notably Cliara (Clare), Bofin and Shark.A Munster chief settled on Inishark (Shark) with his wife, children and nurse.One day the boy dreamed of a lovely land under the sea; his nurse was asleep and he induced the two other children to go to the shore, where they were drowned.The nurse, in her deep sorrow and self-reproach for her carelessness, secluded herself in a shore cave and spent her time in prayer and mourning.At last one day she found a bunch of strange, lovely flowers placed in her hand, and she at once died. 1 The children evidently had been spirited away to " Ladra " or some other undcr-sca paradise, for children who die young arc really alive in the fairy hills.On Bonn it is considered very dangerous for young girls to be let go about by themselves, as there is a very splendid fairy ' I heard a very similar tale on Galway Hay before 1886.I think over the Clare border

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• The Good Death and the Materiality of Mourning

  Open Access•I Kuijt, Meredith S Chesson et al.•International Journal of…•2020

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