Lady Jane Wilde Image Credit: Wikimedia I research almost every day, and I write almost every day. On most days, I write about what I have discovered in my resarch, and the past two days, I have been researching Celtic Folklore. Several times, writers have mentioned the name Lady Wilde as a source for this…
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Irish Fairy Tales, Edited by W. B. Yeats in 1892
AN IRISH STORY-TELLER – William Butler Yeats “I am often doubted when I say that the Irish peasantry still believe in fairies. [This was publishe in 1892] People think I am merely trying to bring back a little of the old dead beautiful world of romance into this century of great engines and spinning-jinnies. Surely…
What Is A Changeling?
Not long ago, some people, especially the rural peasantry, believed that there were changelings intermingling among the regular people. It was believed that changelings were the children who were left in a household–after the fairies had stolen the child who had lived there before. “Sometimes the fairies fancy mortals, and carry them away into their…