The Elf-Shot Spaniel A curious dog is elf-shot by grotesque Irish fairies after straying into their territory.
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Chris Woodyard
on
June 23, 2018
in Animal Tales , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Social History , Victorian
and tagged dog elf-shot by fairies , dog shot by the elves , elf bolts , elf darts , elf-shot , elf-stone , elfin arrows , evil fairies , injured by the fairies , Irish fairies , Irish water spaniel , mad dog , malevolent fairies , Shot by the Elves , The Elf-Shot Spaniel
The Fairy Kiss. A mysterious kiss is bestowed on a grieving woman in an Irish house built on fairy ground.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
July 11, 2017
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Victorian
and tagged fairies in Ireland , fairy kisses human , Good People , Hawthorn trees , Irish fairies , Irish fairy encounters , May trees , The Fairy Kiss , The Gentry
Feeding the Fairies After scaring away a child’s fairy playmates a coachman “has trouble” with the angry Little People.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
December 1, 2016
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , News , Panics , Social History
and tagged American fairies , Cleveland , fairies , fairy belief , fairy faith , feeding the fairies , gentry , Irish fairies , little people , placating the fairies , Rockefeller Park Cleveland Ohio
Seeking Lost Manuscripts Seeking the lost fairy and ghost/supernatural manuscripts of Marie Campbell.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 17, 2016
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Ghosts , Interesting People , News
and tagged Cloud-Walking , folklore , Irish fairies , Irish fairy belief , Kentucky folklore , Kentucky folktales , Kentucky ghosts , Marie Alice Campbell , Marie Campbell , missing manuscripts , Seeking Lost Manuscripts
“Clothed in Light:” Sidhe Sightings Early 20th-century sightings of the Gentry.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 15, 2016
in Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , religion , Social History , Spook Lights
and tagged "Clothed in Light:" Sidhe Sightings , angels , Arthur Machen , fairies , Irish fairies , Listowel , Sidhe , spook lights , The Gentry , Tuatha Dé Danann
Two odd reports of Irish fairies or something like them, playing football. A Limerick man has a narrow escape.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
March 17, 2015
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , Ghosts , News , Victorian
and tagged fairies of Ireland , fairy forts , Golden Vale , Golden Vein , Irish fairies , Irish ghosts , Killalea , raths
The Music of Fairy in Kerry “It is fairy music, and it is seldom that one who was not born in Kerry can hear it…” A story of hearing the music of fairyland.
Posted by
Chris Woodyard
on
November 13, 2014
in Ephemera , Fairies and Elemental Spirits , Folklore , Fortean Mysteries , News , Wonders and Curiosities
and tagged fae , fairies , fairy music , Irish fairies , Irish folklore , Kerry , music of fairyland , The Music of Fairy in Kerry