Tag: Evil

• Evil Omen

  

  A Tale from the West of Ireland Jack Flannery was a humble, hard-working shoemaker who lived quietly with his wife and their grown-up son, in a little cottage that stood by the roadside, at the edge of the village of Derryard. Trained by his father, Jack’s son had built a good reputation in the county. […]

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  February 28, 2021

  Demons, Fairy Story, Fiction, Ireland, Legend, Short Story

  Death, Evil, Shoemaker, Tales, Terror, The West of Ireland

• Pooka

  

  An Irish Spirit I have spelt the name for this particular spirit as ‘Pooka’, but there are other spellings – púca, phouka, phooka, phooca, puca or púka. However, it is spelt, the ‘Pooka’ is primarily a creature of Celtic folklore.  Some sources suggest that the origin of the name may have come from the Old […]

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  November 17, 2020

  Article Series, Demons, Fairy Story, Fiction, Ghost Story, Ireland, Legend, Update

  Demons, Evil, Folklore, Ireland, Legend, Pooka, Spirits

• True or not?

  

  There are some people who doubt the existence demons and fairies, Hell, or Heaven. At a Christmas dinner last year, a woman told me that she did not believe in ghosts or fairies, in Hell or a Heavenly paradise. She was sure that Hell was an invention created by the priesthood as a means of […]

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  November 12, 2020

  Demons, Ireland, Uncategorized

  bucalauns, Evil, Fairies, Fairy Kidnapping, Heaven, Hell, Ireland, Leprechauns