Author: Caitriona Lally

Cites

• W. B. Yeats (1)
  • IN: Eggshells (2015) Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes the fairies fancy mortals, and carry them away into their own country, leaving instead some sickly fairy child... Most commonly they steal children. If you "over look a child", that is look on it with envy, the fairies have it in their power. Many things can be done to find out if a child's a changeling, but there is one infallible thing -- lay it on the fire... Then if it be a changeling it will rush up the chimney with a cry...
    FROM: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, (1888), Book, Ireland