Category: Fiction
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Biddy’s – How To Treat the Fairies
A Lesson Learned In Ireland it is customary for the people to treat the fairy folk to many little acts of kindness. One example of this occurs when a cow is milked, and care is taken to let the first couple of draws from the udder are permitted to drop upon the ground for the […]
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Biddy’s – Our Dead Friends
“Our dead Friends are right,” an old man told me after hearing that it was my custom to sit up late at night to read. “No, sir, that isn’t right at all,” he sighed and shook his head disapprovingly. I was curious as to his reasoning and I asked him, “Why is that? “ “Well,” […]
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Biddy’s – The Demon Dog
Paddy M’Dermot was one of the most popular boys in the entire county and such was his popularity that there was hardly a fair or a festival that did not have him in the middle of it. In fact, just like a bad penny, Paddy turned up everywhere and it was exceedingly rare that his […]
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Dining Belle Fey
Guest item written by Sean Carney – March 2018 This is the first guest item I have included in my blog and I present to my readers for its interest value, and in the hope it will encourage others to send in their stories. Browsing through Donegal Town’s official website recently, I came across some snippets […]
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Biddy’s – Danny Burke
There are many people who have heard about the adventures, but there are only a very few who may have heard of what caused all the perils he faced, which was the error of having slept beneath the walls of the Pooka’s tower. He was a man that I was very friendly with and many […]
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Biddy’s – Dance of the Dead
Fairy Lore “Don’t stay out after dark, or the bogeyman will get you!” was the warning a mother would give her children when they went out to play. But, more often than not, the children would laugh at the very idea of a bogey-man existing. Tradition in Ireland, however, does warn us that it is […]
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Biddy’s – A Story of Lough Neagh
A Strange Tale I will admit that the following story is a very strange tale, but I can assure you that it is not a fiction, which has been dreamed up in my own imagination just amuse you. Most of my stories are, in fact, told to me by various people throughout this land, and […]
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Biddy’s – Charlie Brennan’s Ghost
“It is sinful and painful to take a pin,No matter how thick,No matter how thin,“ So, sang little Andy Smyth, in his loud and shrill voice. “Jaysus, Andy. It’s bad enough listening to your singing without hearing your efforts at poetry,” laughed Harry Crowe as he patted little Andy’s flaxen-haired head in a friendly, mocking […]
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Biddy’s – Changelings and other Fairy beings
In the past the Irish peasantry never thought, even for one moment, that a child abducted from its home would have been killed and buried in the cold earth somewhere. In their minds they imagined that the missing child was living among the fairies, although this belief did not lessen the heartbreak felt by the […]
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Biddy’s – A PIPER’S TALE
I can recall a wee man who lived in the village of Derrytrask for quite a few years, but almost all his neighbours thought he was a bit of an ‘eejit’ (idiot). If asked, “what made them look upon the wee man as an eejit?”, they would look at the questioner in such a way […]
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