The Fairy Trial of Bridget Cleary
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- In nineteenth-century Ireland, ancient superstitions clashed with modern ideas. The tragic story of the 1895 "fairy trial" of Bridget Cleary, a country seamstress, shocked the nation and the world.
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Some viewers have noticed that there is a TV antenna in the picture of the Shue house. While that is purportedly a photo of the actual house, it was taken years after the event.
My Grandmother was Bridget Boland from Counnty Sligo.
I just found your channel. I love history, it is amazing, Took classes in college about history. I actually subscribed to your channel. Not something I do very much.👍
she had been at her cousins house jack dunne , where she was caught in the rain . developing bronchitis. it was jack dunne who started the doubts and believed she was a changeling.
it was jack who pressured micheal to see the 'fairy doctor ' after three visits from the medical hadnt improved the situation
Cormac Sheedy, thank you for your comments. Love smart comments. Wish I could give you more then just one thumbs up
When wonderful loving children are stolen and replaced with monsters, we used to call them changelings. Nowadays we call them teenagers.
LOL
😩☺😁😃😄🤗 Funny !
How true 🤣
Jim Allen
This just shows how long this has been going on! lol
Jim Allen : "Evidently, the quotation is spurious."
www.bartleby.com/73/195.html
quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-children-in-ancient-times/
Ireland has its terrors. I remember being stuck in a pub during a terrible tempest, lasted for days. Those wretched words of "We're now out of whiskey, gentlemen!" still makes my skin crawl.
The History Guy, you obviously expend a lot of mental energy finding these fascinating slices of time.
And so many of us are sincerely grateful for your efforts. Peace.
Just happen to be vacationing in Ireland. My wife had never seen your channel and I said she should watch today’s episode with me on my iPad since we had no TV. What a surprise that the video fit so well with where we now are. She was won over as a new subscriber with a single view! You are an excellent teacher.
"Under the hill". Grand parents used that term to describe a heavily wooded valley on our farm. They were descendants of some of the first Irish to settle in what is now West Virginia back in the 1770's. Some of the most superstitious people I have ever known.
Fascinating
Your history lesson for today, tugged at my heart and soul. Excellent story by the internet's best historian!!
Incredibly sad story, gives me chills whenever I think of Bridget Cleary's last moments, her own family :-(
It is unfortunate that in today’s world there are still people who blame their problems on others, just because they are different. Your videos always have a wonderful humanity in the way you present them. Thank you.
*Another great video.* Always such great information presented by a natural storyteller. You sir, deserve the rapid growth that your channel has seen. This is the best short form history channel on UA-cam as far as I'm concerned, and I'm pleased to see so many people appreciate your work as much as I do. Thanks as always for the new video. *:)*
History Guy- You might like to have a look at Alice Kyteler from Kilkenny, Ireland.
The scary thing is, that way of thinking and behaviour is just under the surface of many apparently civilised people today.
So true.
D Knock it off
I was alluding less to the fantasy side of things and more to the fact that people will do terrible things to each other based on such flimsy and erroneous beliefs as fairies or any other fantastic belief.
I don't think there is a 'need' to believe in such things so much as people are too lazy to look more deeply and think about their beliefs peer pressure and culture also have a part to play as well.
Suspension of belief and entertainment?
People, civilized?
You either jest, or are delusional, if you think the species is civilized.
Sounds like Michael was the one who away with the fairy's..
I think today the Brits would call him a real nutter.
Sounded like a functioning drunk.
maybe he should have googled the symptoms , O the broadband was not great then it was soo backward
It's so heartbreaking that the famine had such impact. Not only population wise, but actually played a huge role in greatly eroding the presence of a magnificent, unique, and beautiful language and culture.
We still say "away with fairies" to mean someone who is daydreaming or not focussed on the world (at that time).
Or taking absinthe.
Great expression !
Love it.
Thank you so much for this channel. Certainly one of the top history based channels on UA-cam. Won't be long until 1 mill subscribers. I'm thankful to have been here from around 20K. Keep the videos coming! Very much appreciated quality content.
This video is so incredibly amazing. Thank you HG. What a sad, sad story. We visited the Emerald Isle on our own in 2012. It was our best tour across the Atlantic before I had an awful foot surgery that left me crippled. God bless.
I'm from Northern Ireland but now live in England. I can say the phrase Away with the fairies is still commonly used and understood across the land. Normally used when someone is not quite themselves or unresponsive (day dreaming) when called.
kee1haul A fellow Northern Irish Ulsterman or woman 🤚🏻. Indeed a few people here are away with the faires still.....
That phrase is quite commonly used in England too, I remember it from when I was very young.
We call it being teched in the mountains of eastern Kentucky- Tennessee.
We also use that expression in Australia :)
"Away with using quotation marks!"
But thanks for sharing your quaint history, it is appreciated.
It sounds like Michael was the one that was 'away with the faires'
A great explanation of Bridget Cleary. When I was in Galway many years ago, I saw a theatre production of this story. I always thought it was just some obscure local legend, so thanks for bringing it out into the light of day.
Love this series. The depth of detail in each story and the manner in which it is told makes each story compelling listening.
My girlfriend in the 80's had family in Ireland. In their field there was an ancient blackthorn bush. They always plowed around it until one day one of the boys decided to pull it out. It took all day and 3 teams of horses to pull the tractor out of the field. "The blackthorn stayed. I myself saw a fairy near Blarney Castle. This fellow may not believe but I still do.
Ahhhhh there’s so many people out there that study Fae and do blv they exist 🫶🏼
There is no difference between believing in faeries and any other religion.
Keep up the great work!
...my maternal grandmother was born in Kinnegad, Westmeath in 1885...she
Passed in 1976...I heard stories like these when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s...I'm 73...
Just recently found your channel. I love how you give the facts and tell the story without bias.
Ushering out the old superstitions and ushering in the new superstitions. Great video once again!
"Arrows are expensive, send in the Irish". Longshanks
Poor French!!!--I presume said at the end of the battle of Crecy ??
"WE" get the POINT.
That quote is from a movie and is made up. It's telling that after watching something about people having problems distinguishing reality from fiction there would be people in the comments section who also can't tell the difference.
Lol!
@@davidjohnson-pz2df bloody hell your not very educated in European history if you think Edward I was at Crecy.
Sobering. This aspect of history is fascinating. I'd like to see more folklore and similar historical stories. Thanks !!
Another really interesting video, thank you. Your enthusiasm about history comes across really well in your videos.
Ouffff ! ! A tough one, History Guy. But is's instructive to know how all the fairy / leprechaun business really went down before Disney got ahold of the legend.
This is the sort of thing that shows why the riposte 'but it is our culture' is not an excuse when mad shit happens in cases where religious beliefs are being argued in place of medicine.
There was no real medicine then though. Even as late as the 1940’s, the cure for gum disease was the removal of all teeth without anaesthetic. My dad and aunt, about 4 and 7 at the time, had this done to them. They were poor in a poor rural part of Ireland, and done at the same time as people were splitting the atom and sending things to the edge of space.
@@burkezillar That's not what I mean...
very true.. but u cant really talk people out of that stuff either.
Thank you. As always, a fascinating topic well presented, and this time one I had never heard anything about before, not just the specifics, but the whole underpinnings of fairy mythology in Ireland.
Thank You. I appreciate the effort and time you put in to bringing these videos to fruition. I watch daily, sometimes replaying videos months later to glean something I may have missed. You expertly pack so much excellent information and context into a small segment. I very much enjoy this channel. You have something special here. (I would like to see: 1.Anything on the Blue Ridge Parkway, U.S. National Park. --perhaps the Lynn Cove viaduct. 2. The Spruce Pine Mining District history and it's high purity quartz.--- Frankie Stewart Silvers is an interesting murder tale. I am just a fan of my hometown would like to see you present on a bit of Appalachia.)
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God help us all! I was born in eastern Kentucky and raised with haints, boogums, and painters amongst others. Old women were supposed to be imbued with terrible powers and never trifiled with lest they sick a boogum on ye. My own grandmother was viewed with fear. The neighborhood spoke to outsiders warning them about her saying she was teched! I view this all with humor now but as a 4 year old I lived with the fear of being snatched up by a haint or a painter. I remember my grand mother fondly and firmly believe she was teched, with love and human kindness. Ignorance is alive today in our world and continues to flourish. Parents would do well if they set an example of love and tolerance for their children.
yea its totally possible today. most people are no more educated than they would have been 100 years ago.
+Hunter deja Boom and their cultures were similar in regards to mystical beings.
A painter is their way of saying panther or mountain lion.
Lol... how interesting!!!
So what are haints, painters, boogums etc and what is "teched"???
Thank you!
@@sixchiensblancs haint-ghost usually but not always fearsome. painter-thought to be Panthers but big cats long extinct in area, identified by frightening screams that strike fear in the hearer. No one ever admits to seeing one. Boogams called boogers locally, soul collectors for hells master, never seen until they appear in front of their intended and rip their soul out. Several need to be sent to Washington to clean out congress. Teched- addled, person with a different mind usually gentle sometimes loving, humorous. Quare rimes with square- any body different. Furriner- any body from some any where else. Thanks for the response. David
History Guy (as an early subscriber), you have a great, wonderful room (the caps are the best reference and honor to military service); now that's a real man cave! Thanks for sharing so varied history...that deserves to be remembered. I so respect when, in other instances, people have noted erratas; you're so humble with your acknowledgements. Being called to indear history is, indeed, a blessing. Appreciate you sharing such varied history!
Gratitude & Respect Professor!!
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The USA and other countries shipped food to Ireland, but the "British over- Lords" withheld it and watched as thousands died.
They didn't care about the poor people the way we do today. They thought that if you were poor it was God's decision and no one should interfere with His decision. Which is not what the Bible says, Jesus said to help the poor as if you were helping Him. That's what comes from letting someone else tell you what they think the Bible says. Once people read the good book for themselves they began to care about the plight of poor people, widows and orphans and anyone who needed help.
The story I heard was that America sent corn on the cob. The Irish did not know to boil it, or had no peat to do so. That said the story of Ireland, being told by the English, has never been fairly told.
Thank you for your channel. Of all the content that I have discovered while on UA-cam, yours is the most engaging, entertaining, and instructive. Your delivery is clear and very easy to follow. While it was a wise choice for you to chose the time format that you did, I would enjoy presentations from you in deeper formats for subjects and persons that might require a presentation of longer duration (perhaps another opportunity for additional channel since this format is doing well for you in reaching broader audiences).
Again, thank you for being here and bringing this wonderful work to us.
Respectfully submitted,
Tim
Love the history lessons, keep them coming.
well presented sad story
Sadly, the Irish language is now spoken as a first language by less people than the speakers of Polish and Chinese, these days- it is the fourth in the list of users in Ireland.
Do you know when Irish stopped being the dominant language?
@2manynegativewaves How droll
Just discovered your posts through this video and the excellent pieces about the British Electric Lightning and the SR71. Excellent work! Looking forward to seeing the rest of your terrific posts. Thank you!
Thank You! I love history and this is wonderful, good job!
The husband was clearly "away with the fairies" aka out of his mind
My theory: he found out about the affair, and his reaction was the most brutal but socially sanctioned way he could seek revenge under the circumstances.
I love the History Guy.
I am passionate about history. I just soak it up.
I like the way he tells the story. He pauses for us to absorb what he is saying.
A fascinating and sad tale. Thank you.
Two thumbs up in the first 45 seconds. Very impressive.
Great now I'm gonna have nightmares about fairies tonight.
The phrase "away with the faeries" is still used in Scotland today, although these days it's not literal, it generally refers to someone who is a bit of a daydreamer, or sometimes muddle-headed (similar to the expression "they're not all there")
I think this channel is my new favourite channel on UA-cam! I love learning about history, but when I was a boy at school we were taught about really boring stuff, like the UK Corn Laws - I lost interest and ended up focussing more on current 'love' interests rather than historical events! Thanks for helping to rekindle a lost love :)
I recently told my fiancée about your channel. She has a masters degree majoring in history and what was needed to become a public school teacher. What exactly that requires I am not exactly sure? She thinks you put on a good show as do I. Thanks for the channel.
Sounds like he was just using this as an excuse to get rid of his wife.
aaaaand after watching the rest of the video. . . . . OMFG that poor woman!
Most people who investigated concluded they sincerely believed the fairy story, but that is impossible to know for sure.
With all of the abuse of women, in the news these days, I went to the same thinking.
Lori Boufford Abuse assault rape and all kinds of mistreatment of women has been going on for most of human history, let’s not kid ourselves. If you say this aloud, men will call you names.
+ acchaladka pay attention. she said "in the news". obviously its a big topic lately. Literally every adult knows its always gone on.
I love your videos, love your channel, and I'm going through the back catalogue. Each video is interesting, well told, and usually on subjects that I have no or passing knowledge about.
I wonder if you have considered doing anything on the New Madrid earthquake.
What a fascinating story. Thanks so much!
Damn I feel bad for this woman, married to this crazy man. I couldn't imagine being married to someone that would throw their urine on me or other weird stuff yelling "BE GONE DEMONS"
It'd be terrible.
Sounds like he was the nut job not her...!
The pic of him - look at his crazy eyes.
He thought he was doing the right thing
How bout a bed wetter 😂
Superstitions still abound today. Several neighbours have string wrapped around their wrists placed there by a healer to ward off diseases and bad luck.
It's very unlucky to be superstitious!
I still find myself occasionally knocking on wood. Setting fir to your wife, though, takes it to the extreme...
Love the show, love the material and love the tie. Look forward to every episode.
You left out the cat! Of course some people aren't comfortable with cats . Anyway enjoy.
Absolutely tragic!!!! - Sigh! This poor woman!
My Mother told me the Fairies (snd every sort of superstition you can imagine) were real and she was not joking .... it took me until I was in my teens to learn the truth, and I suffered teasing, bullying and beatings, defending her beliefs in grade school.
Maybe poor Bridget Cleary was pregnant and suffering from morning sickness. RIP
That was my hunch, too.
Ken Allan Dronsfield Any number of conditions, including malnutrition. Unfortunately, medical science of the day was terrible, and in effect contributed to some of these disasters.
I agree but it was too bad this poor woman was forced by her husband to hate Jesus Christ; bloody awful!
If they had no children she may have had fibroids or Endometrosis?
What a sad story. Thank you for sharing.
Appreciate your videos. Thank you for your effort in research and editing.
Sounds like her family and especially her husband were a superstitious lot and none of sound mind and the wife was the only sane person in the family.
or she had an affair with the medicine man
"In the valley of the blind the one eyed man is king"
Or he wanted to rid himself of a wife who bore no children.
The Gaelic language was actively suppressed, thank the British for this.
Aye...Simplistic English explanations (“the language dies out because of the famine”), giving cover for the pograms and laws against the use of our language.
Jester Mclarpet
Who's stopping your from learning and using it now? Although the great EU recognize it as a European language they consider it such a minority language they refuse to print most of the legislation in it.
@@wjf0ne your right, as a mid 30's adult i find it hard to keep bringing up the brits for our lost tongue. Sadly our education system for far to long was not good enough even for my generation. But now with reform, my kids ohhh how they can spew it. Doesnt help that i dont know well enough myself and i always say ill learn but i dont . I remember enough to prove im irish but not enough to keep me nan happy.
@@ajax5622 There's so much nonsense, misinformation and exaggeration written it's hard to find any real truth, Article III of The Statute of Kilkenny from 1367 which made it illegal for English colonists in Ireland to speak the Irish language,
1740s generally Latin and French were used in thee law courts, an Irish man accused of murder spoke very little English and the Irish barristers spoke very little Irish, an Irish policeman claimed to be able to speak both languages and said the man had admitted his guilt and was hanged, it turned out the police man had lied a call for more education was made, the hedge schools who taught Irish were banned, but a blind eye was turned and no one was ever prosecuted.
@@ajax5622 Download Duolingo. It won't get you fluent, it might not even be the right dialect for you, but at least it keeps you practicing 😊
Fascinating. I love old tales like these, especially during the weeks leading up to Halloween.
I wish I'd had you sir for a history teacher in school, if so I would never have wanted to leave your class when the bell rang.
YOU ARE A FANTASTIC TEACHER!!!!💖🤗🤗🤗🤗👏👏👏👌👌👌🖒🖒👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗👌
Human logic can be most terrifying.
The saddest thing is that beliefs and actions like this and worse are still very much present in XXI century...
Excellent! Tragic story that's well shared.
Another excellent video. Keep them coming.
Your videos are so well done and masterfully told. I've enjoyed every one. How about one on the the only 2 US "General of the Armies", John J Pershing and George Washington? The rank allowed for wearing 6 stars, as opposed to General of the Army, who wore 5. Pershing rose to prominence during the US/Moro War, a war most Americans know nothing about. Thanks for what you do!
Yes, most Americans don't know that the US Army killed 500,000 in the Philippines putting down rebellion after we had double crossed the allies we used while driving the Spanish out. My grandfather was there in the US Cavalry in 1903.
I'm amused by the southern US Congressman who stated that we had to go to the Philippines "to Christianize the place" -- conveniently ignoring the fact that the islands had already been a Spanish colony for over 350 years and the population was overwhelmingly Catholic.
Make way for the new superstitions
Another great episode. Thank you for sharing. Take care.
Man, some serious lunacy back in those days. People were nuts! Poor Bridget, poor little boy.
The potato famine was nothing less than Irish genicide.
It's sad that some people think that there were just no potatoes and so people starved. It was so much more than that.
This is cool.. the history, not the horrible death
What an incredible story. This was less than 150 years ago.
I am quite new to this channel, but not new to the fairy stories as I was brought up in Ireland. I really enjoy these videos and have seen quite a few over the past few days. I would love to see more on the Irish history as it is rarely heard or seen outside Ireland.
Please keep up the great work and I will keep watching and looking out for the Little People!!
Have Fun,
Joe
I'd love to find a Leprachauns crock of gold ;P
Let learn from history and not let it pass as mere amusement.
But the biggest lesson to learn from history is that people never learn from history:(
Marvelous quote! May I steal?
Of course
@@danielekkel2629 Thank you.
The population of Ireland only recovered to its pre Potato Famine size only about twenty years ago. Ireland was the only country to have fewer residents in 1990 than it had in 1850.
John Ferguson incorrect, it still hasn't recovered.
We still haven’t. Before the famine, we had about 8 million people. Today, there’s only about 4.7 million in the Republic with another 1.5 million in the North
Strong Amazon but what is Irish ancestry population in the u.s alone it has to be more than Ireland.
STUBS 1960 Those are but plastic paddys.
Love your history.
I'm irish and never heard of this before.
Going to look it up .keep the show going, brilliant stuff
I'm from Tipperary and never heard of this. Thank you
And when they got drunk they were 'off with the fairies'.
You should do a video of American POW camps during WWI and WWII
I have a couple of potential topics on US POW camps.
Indeed. The local airport near my childhood home was a POW camp during WWII.
The late Zenna Henderson was a teacher at an internment camp at "Waters" or "Rivers" (accounts differ) which may have been in AZ. Not America's shining example at its best, but still history to remember... what were the camps like?
There was a POW camp near Malton in Yorkshire UK, it's now a museum called Eden Camp. I can recommend it if you are ever in Yorkshire History Guy.
I request that a Video be produced regarding P.O.W.s in the Nam and I am not talking about the ones that made it back (i.e. McCain).
I am so glad I found this channel. You're da'man. :)
I hope you prosper with your sharing.
Thank you for the time spent in such a fun and polished nature...I will continue on being your audience.
My mother in her broad Glasgow accent (my Gran was Irish) would often say "Shes away wi the fairies" should anyone do something out of character or something daft, I have never even given it a moments thought as to where it came from, her meaning was usually clear so id never had a need to ask what she meant.
How come your Irish mom has Scottish accent?
I see so many parallels with modern "alternative medicine" and conspiracy theories...
Nneig >>> Your perspectives are skewed. Alternative medicine is generally taken to mean NATURAL , non synthetic, and has the properties to heal by addressing the ROOT CAUSE OF the illness rather than the SYMPTOMS and are PROVEN EFFECTIVE. Conspiracy theories are something all together different and are just that, THEORIES. Look up the definition. And become INFORMED.
Awesome video...although sad, it was so interesting in man's way of blurring fact with a "fairy tale", always looking forward to the next piece of history. :)
Great videos. Thanks!
Shudder, shudder. Belief requires substantial physical proof; otherwise, no cigar.
I read earlier that the aristocracy sold the potatoes to England, creating the Irish famine. Now l find out the famine in turn created an opportunity for the aristocracy to make a giant land-grab. This is not the first time HG has made a few pieces fit together for me. History comprises of many a ghastly thing to know, but it's still much better than ignorance and endlessly repeating the awfullness of the past.
Ophelia Bawles no, they soldeverything else. There were no potatoes to sell.
The aristocracy already had pretty significant control of the Irish farm land before the famine. The famine meant that smaller landowner had to sell their land when their workforce died or emigrated. And it wasn’t the potatoes the aristocracy sold to Britain, it was the like of wheat and barley, high profit foodstuffs. The Irish were dependent on the potato because it allowed them to maximise the small land they did own for themselves or the land they did own for so poor it was good for nothing else except potatoes or animal grazing
The famine enriched so many Irish landowners in that land grab, it gave them the political power and money to effectively campaign for independence.
The account you've given is very anachronistic, of someone brought up in the 20th century welfare system and influence by very bias nationalist accounts.
Look at the poverty and death amongst the poor in London, it was no different for the British poor than the Irish poor. Exactly the same land grabs occurred across Britain as Ireland driving the poor from the land to city slums, disease and death. The government at that time was Lese-Faire Capitalist to a level not conceivable modern in the times. Everything was done by private companies. In fact British culture was hostile to the government really doing anything on its own. The poor were left to fend for themselves and were expected to work their way out of poverty and if they didn't it was lazyness or inferiority.
The Irish famine is not really another historical relic of a more nationalistic past, but an incredibly poignant warning to the present on where neo-liberalsim, globalism, right wing popularisation is leading us back too.
Adrienne Gormley You May be thinking of Clare or the province of Connacht. "To Hell or to Connacht" is a saying attributed to Cromwell is the drive to resettle the east and north, as Clare and Connacht are known for their rough conditions. And while the Irish would filter back east, the Planted English would remain the dominant class for centuries
My dad was from Scotland but my mother's father was from Ireland and all of these countries have magical thinking in their past including Wales where I lived for 2 years. As far as Wales goes they finally fought to get their language back and now all of their street signs are in English and Welsh and many people if you're sitting at an outdoor Cafe will be speaking Welsh. I learned Welsh and I know some Scottish Gaelic but not a ton. I identify with my dad's side of the family being Scottish but what a wonderful way to live with faeries the people and other such wonderful ways to think and to live your life much more simply by not cutting a certain tree or what not. This is a wonderful way to live and I would like to see you do one on Scotland and the same sort of magical thinking which everybody else calls paganism. I enjoyed your video very much. Thank you! :-)
Wow...that was brutal....very well done, sir
God save us from the ignorant and superstitious. The antidote is a good education based on facts and science, including plenty of history!
What know ye of science?
S Tho The better question would be how much science do _you_ know, to be motivated to ask that question of me.
@@hshs5756 Doctorate in Physical Chemistry and a retired professor. I'm currently helping my daughter with her Biochemistry degree.
How about you?
S Tho, frankly, I don't believe you. People as well educated as you claim to be have enough self-confidence that they have no need to go around making random attacks on the knowledge of strangers.
martin, quite the opposite -- the science of who we are and how we think leaves plenty of room for individuality while actually validating emotions, beliefs, and thoughts as having logical roots in evolution: it's anything BUT "random".
but chritianiity isnt superstiion?
Finally, I've found another nerd that loves quirky history even more than I! I can't stop watching your videos! Ugh, my wife keeps asking me to come to bed, guess I better get off the internet. But there's always tomorrow.
Keep up with the great videos!
Great video as always. Glad to see your over 100K subscribers. Have you ever looked into the ghost of Greenbrier County? The only conviction in the United States by testimony of a ghost. Thanks for your work and positive delivery.