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| Author's Note | |
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| Editor's Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| "The Queerest Thing I Ever Saw": Who They are and What They Want | |
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| The Vicious Fairies | |
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| The Fallen Angels | |
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| A Fairy Funeral | |
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| Refereeing a Fairy Hurling Match | |
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| A Queer Walk | |
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| A Skeptic's Story | |
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| Man Carried to Play Football | |
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| A Midnight Ride | |
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| A Musician's Story | |
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| A Fairy Request Thwarted | |
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| Man Borrows a Fairy Horse | |
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| A Fairy Cow | |
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| An Old Woman Changes Shape | |
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| The Rats from the Ashes | |
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| A Strange Pig | |
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| Meeting the Black Dog | |
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| The Eel | |
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| The Fairy Frog | |
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| "There Since the Start o'the World": Fairy Places and Signs of Their Presence | |
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| The Bush That Bled | |
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| A Fairy Bush Moved | |
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| Man Cuts Briars in a Fairy Fort | |
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| Respecting the Ancient Forts | |
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| A Sportsman Who Won't Interfere | |
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| Let Very Well Alone! | |
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| Mysterious Sounds from Two Forts | |
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| A Pregnant Woman Goes into a Fort | |
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| The Man in the Coffin | |
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| A House Built Between Forts | |
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| The Fairy House | |
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| Planting on a Fairy Path | |
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| Electricity Poles Moved from Fairy Path | |
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| Fairies Violently Object to Their Path Being Blocked | |
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| Man Gets Warning from the Fairy Wind | |
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| Three Brief Stories of the Fairy Wind | |
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| A Woman Gets Knocked with the Si-Gaoith | |
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| Strange Gravity | |
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| Man Prevented from Passing | |
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| Latoon Dead Hunt | |
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| A Fairy Mansion | |
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| Meeting the Coiste Bodhar, the Fairies' Hearse | |
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| A Personal Experience of the Banshee | |
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| Banshee Comes for Dying Man | |
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| Banshee Alerts Family | |
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| Banshee Heard in Manhattan | |
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| A Prankster | |
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| The Barefield Banshee | |
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| "Their Own Way of Collecting": Gifts, Punishment, and Other Outcomes of Fairy Encounters | |
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| A Transaction with the Other Crowd | |
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| The Fairies Repay a Favor | |
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| Fairy Races Horse to Repay a Favor | |
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| Mare Taken for Fairy Battle | |
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| Hurler's Bravery Rewarded | |
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| How the Sextons Got the Gift of Bonesetting | |
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| Man "in the Fairies" Moves Hay | |
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| Tom of the Fairies | |
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| Hurler with a Humpback | |
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| Biddy Early "Strange" as a Child | |
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| Biddy Early Helps, but a Price Paid | |
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| A Clash of Power: Biddy Early Versus the Clergy | |
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| Three Stories of Priests Who Can See the Other Crowd | |
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| Holy Water Given As Protection | |
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| Girl Carried by the Fairies | |
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| The Girl Saved from the Good People | |
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| Woman Carried Asks for Rescue | |
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| A Tragic Loss of Nerve | |
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| A Woman Dies ... and Remarries | |
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| Garret Barry and the Changeling | |
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| Two Changeling Stories | |
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| A Tailor Saves a Baby | |
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| The Fairies Get Set on a Whole Family | |
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| A Rash Intervention Condemns Woman | |
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| Unbeliever Released from Fort ... Barely! | |
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| The Shanaglish Weaver | |
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| Acknowledgments | |