Fairy Encounters and Stories from Ireland, featuring Eddie Lenihan (County Clare).
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- Опубліковано 29 лип 2024
- This film is a collection of local folklore stories about fairies in Ireland. The film features interviews with Bridie Morgan and Eddie Lenihan who tell Fairy and changeling stories from the West of Ireland. The stories are accounts of Fairy encounters and misfortunes in Ennis, Corofin and County Clare.
You can purchase Eddie Lenihan's book about Fairies here eddielenihan.weebly.com/store...
Special thanks to Bridie Morgan and Eddie Lenihan for their interviews. - Фільми й анімація
I live on old fort Road in co Tyrone. The fort is on my land. There's a very long lane up to our farm and a hill called crock hill on the opposite side of the lane. There's a man in our gaa club said he watched as the fairys came down from the fort to try steel the crock of gold from the leprechauns on crock hill. Apparently the bottom of my lane is a battle ground. My father cut down a bush on the side of the fort and our best gun dog died so we don't really anoy it anymore but the sheep and cattle love it, the lambs take shelter there, I feel it gives good luck just don't damage it, 😆😆😆🧚♂️
Stay away from the sherry, good lad. You're mixing Irish folklore with American lucky charms...
I hope these folklore and stories withstand the test of time, absolutely fascinating . Thank you
I hope so too. Thanks for watching :)
I sit and watch these every night
Much better than tv or netflix
@@returnofthegmac9203 So glad you like them!
@@returnofthegmac9203 oh yea much better 🌻
They Have up to now.✌️☘️
The fairy faith of the Celtic countries. An excellent book.
I was meant to be renewing my contact lense prescription this week but it looks like I may need to spend the money on a copy of this book instead, thank you for the suggestion!!
It's "The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries" by Evanz Wentz. You're right. It is an excellent book.
I heard such things as a child in Bestfield Carlow in the 1970’s and all our older people believed it. My grandad as a youth had had to put his jacket on inside out and walk backwards to get out of a fairy fort in Oak park. No one laughed.
They say Bestfield lock is haunted . B
My mam was from carlow and she used to tell us stories about the fairies when we were young and scared the life out of us I do believe in them look what happened when they went through land to build the motorway ❤🎉
It brings new meaning to the saying, "He's off with the Fairies."
I’m a teller of faery stories myself! I’ve only seen one real faery in my lifetime but I’ll never forget him. I am curious why I was blessed with a visit.
Must be a good person
Where? Do you remember what it looked like?
@@michaelflores9220 back my my apartment complex, he was small and canary yellow with a mischievous look, like he knew I could see him .
I would love to hear the reactions from modern day Irish people and foreign people alike. I'm talking about their accents while telling their stories. I'm a Dubliner and I find a hard to understand I just just about do, is brilliant listening to them. ✌️☘️
Thank you so much for bringing me closer to the hearth of my ancestry. What wonderful folk they are. Blessed Be the Fae❤️🇦🇺
No. Not completely accurate. They are not wonderful. Haven't you learned the true stories? People may be treated in any kind of manner by the fae. Sometimes nor fairly. Death and trauma and torture can occur, or an odd blessing or treat.
You have beautiful trees with green moss. How lovely🇦🇺
I sow the ring of faries with my Irish hubby, when we live en Dublin, was cover with flowers the trees, was gorgeous, We did not belive in feries ,,but that is the Irish legend in this parts, woe if you don't belived, bad things will hapen to you...
Love the fairies 🧚♀️
A wonderful and fascinating video of stories... As someone whose ear is not attuned to the Celtic/Gaelic accent, subtitles would be helpful, but sharing these stories is most appreciated.
Thank You for posting these stories👍👋😁
Thanks for watching, you're welcome. :)
I believe in nature spirits fairy's elves ive read lots of cases were people have seen such things laugh if you want but I find it very interesting and magical
And sprites! I believe the balls of light that people see and call ufos are sprites or fairies.
I grew up with my grandmother telling me about fairies and warned me to be careful near fairy forts of which there are many in County Clare. Unfortunately people like her are becoming rare but I’ll be eventually sharing her stories with my kids, I just wish more people would keep these traditions and folklore alive today.
@@nervesinapattern7261 I believe there's all sorts of beings like fae elves nature spirits I think some are interdimensional from other realms trouble with modern society and people is they are to far removed from spiritual matters and dismiss this subject wich was exepted as normal centuries ago 😀😀👍
@@gregfowler957 True, I definitely think we are worse off for not believing or having some aspect of spirituality in our lives, it enriches our imaginations.
My mother's house had a shadow elf like creature. My brothers would see it at night when in their beds. We knew the family that lived there prior and one day my sister bumped in to one of the them and he asked her if she ever sees the evil looking elf shadow creeping along the bedroom walls and then told her he missed the house because of it. The house was haunted. Although I never experienced that there were other things going on as well. Hot radiators going completely cold all of a sudden, being touched, someone typing upstairs but no one up there, I had been assaulted as I slept and woke up because of it, thought it was a dream so drifted back off and then assaulted again. On and on the stories. Oh, one time, years later, I stayed there in the bedroom my brothers had when they were young with my three children and one night I woke up to my two year old ,who slept beside, and she said the word " devil". I thought I heard wrong and asked her to repeat at least three times but that's what she said. Then on the edge of my bed I noticed the mattress being pressed down as if a person sat down next to me. I can see the indentation and it freaked me out but that wasn't all because every battery operated toy started going off , it was absolutely frightening, I grabbed the kids and we slept downstairs. Next morning my mother asked why we were all sleeping on the couch and I told her.She didn't believe me and her and my sister said about the toys that maybe some electrical current effected them or some nonsense and that was the end of it, even though that same sister had the radiator go cold when she was standing next to it while talking to her friend and it freaked her out. Every house Ive lived in ha something but I came to the conclusion most house have it and lands too
The scenery in Your Country is so beautiful . 🍀 i travelled all round the island-1400 km on board the bus....
Such a interesting video.
Sweet stories & lovely people.
i love eddie's stories
Gratitude for telling these stories. Absolutely beautiful!!
Wow these are great fire side stories 😃
Kia ora friend, thanks so much for these beautiful videos. While it's deeply sad that so much of this knowledge is being lost from the world, I am grateful that people like you and these knowledgable interviewees are trying to help us preserve it. I'm in Aotearoa/New Zealand but I'd love to just be able to sit down with these people and other folks knowledgable in the old Lore for hours and record every little bit of knowledge they have retained within them so we can keep it safe for future generations 💚 Do you have any longer interviews with them you're thinking about uploading in the future? I could listen to them talk for hours!! ^_^
Many thanks from Aotearoa/New Zealand 🌼
Kia Ora neighbour! Writing from Melbourne. I agree with everything you said. This is so heartwarming. I hope and pray these stories live forever❤️
Hey :) Thanks so much for your kind words. I have plenty more interviews which I will be editing up over the next year on the channel. :)
If you're interested in the old stories, you should look up more from Eddie Lenihan, the bearded chap in the video. He's a traditional Irish seanachaí (shan-a-kee), which is traditional storyteller. I'm actually from County Clare where these interviews were filmed and when I was a child, Eddie used to tell us stories of ghosts and faeries every Halloween down in the local library. He helped me to learn a love for my culture at a young age. I was very lucky to grow up in an area steeped in history and folklore.
This is gold.
Thank for sharing ur wonderful stories and I am greatful 🙏yugen bliss the road to happiness ☺
Great to hear these stories. I hope they are all recorded.
Thank you for these stories!
That last story scared the HELL outta me lmaoooooooo
Thank you for sharing this. God bless.
I want to believe, the world is full of mystery😉
I heard the banshee in 1987 and the screaming was so scary we heard the next morning my grandmother had dead my sister was in the same room to me but she was fast a sleep i told my mother she said it follows are name which is o gorman i live in Australia now and when i hear a Dog howling someone passes away back in ireland.
Thank you for this! Fascinating!
This is great ...eddies podcast is well worth a listen ..
OMG I couldn’t see the lady’s lips moving and thought something was wrong with the video 😂 Great information.
Oh how I wish there would have been a running script below!! The closed captioning is completely wrong and I can’t hear most of the words. This is my roots!!🇮🇪
I can imagine! The best way to be able to completely understand an accent is to keep listening to it. I suppose it's easier for me because I'm immersed since birth, being the daughter of Irish immigrants to England and being back and forth all my life before settling in Ireland 15 years ago, but that is why I can understand most Irish people no matter how strong the accent. Keep watching and listening, it'll come to you and you'll be grand!!
I ordered his book. It has great reviews.
I enjoyed listen long live them best of luck to you
Not only a changeling, but sassy! If it hadn't opened it's gob about the music, It could have continued on, eating the food, and enjoying the house.
Great! The Headless Dancer!
I’ve seen lights too, I do wonder.
They say make them a clock so they can tell time . And you'll see them
There is an unusual energy inside a fairly forth. I've spent time around and inside them. But always leave a gift of a wee drop in a bottle, I've never felt any badnes towards me.Side note: because he mentioned it as i was typing ]And there's a baby graveyard in the field behind where i live. And the owners of the land will NEVER tuch it. I have made two walking sticks from a fort. One i have, the other i returned to the fort. And the feeling of joy as i placed it back at the base of the blackthorn which they came from. By the time i walked the 50 feet or there abouts, once i stepped outside the ring of the tree's it had gone. ❤️🇮🇪
this is interesting. in southeast asia, we have the same creatures called bunian and most of us believes in them. there has been sightings of them time to time and some people has been reported to been kidnapped by the bunian, usually men.
Wow.
Prayer
Will the fairies forgive you if you accidently disturb a fairy path ? Can you make amends ?
Fairys are entity's ,some are good, some evil some in between,they can be the ghosts of long gone irish ,elemental entity's or demonic entity,they can appear in many shapes forms,some animal some human some like a shapeless mist,etc.. Best avoided ,never to be confronted ,treated with kindness and respect,thet will not harm you,and the power of christ will send them running.
There should be a holiday named for the fairies . Perhaps in the spring time . Everyone leaves a little something for them in a special spot known to be favorited by them? I find it a grand idea!!! ✌🏻❤️✝️
I can never understand why there is never a good fairy story
Liberty caps are a great way to introduce yourself to the land of the fairys.
Liberty Cap?
@@cynthiamadrid1430 hallucinagenic toadstool?
What did she say?
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The subtitles I put on to hear this beloved old lady can't keep up with what she's saying, it started showing it's own words just interpreting what it thinks it's hearing.
Isn't that half the magic?😉
That's what automatic subtitles are.
@@lakesideproduction no
Perhaps it's because these subtitle programmes aren't created by Irish people, but people who also can't understand Irish accents nor Hiberno-English? I know what you mean and the subtitles are rubbish but Irish people tend to only laugh at them!
The only problem I'm having is the audio is very quiet and I've the telly turned up to max volume!!!
The links seems to not be workin, just type; The Strongest Irish Accent You'll Ever Hear.
Where is that place on the first interview
County Clare
Need accurate subtitles
Whit a braw wee story.
I want the dog on the mantle, but in a good way. Material items are strange.
I do believe this part of Ireland is limerick judging by the accent and mention of innis a small town on the clare Road,
The tragedy is that this beautiful Irish culture is in grave danger of becoming extinct due to the invasion of the European Union, they have desecrated this land with every kind of poison from around the globe
Ennis is in Clare, it's one of the counties neighbouring Limerick.
And the EU has not much to do with what you are talking about... Blame globalisation, the mass media in the modern technological age, and economic policies which contribute to the shrinking of rural communities and economies while cities and towns grow.
The EU has pros and cons, but if you don't understand it enough to criticise objectively and within reason it's better to say nothing because people with genuine criticisms may then be lumped together with the people who use hyperbolic language like 'invasion'
This video needs subtitles, it is difficult to understand the lady when she talks
What do fairies look like? What is their nature?
They're not small and cute with wings anyway! They come in many forms, some frightening and even grotesque. Their nature is amoral; they can do favours if it suits them but they can cause suffering and death, even to the innocent, without qualm, a bit like psychopaths. They curse people. They aren't to be taken lightly and that's why they're often referred to as the Good People even though they aren't really good, to avoid drawing their ire onto yourself or your loved ones!
P.S. if you can, give a watch to the film "The Daisy Chain" which is about a couple who take in an orphaned child who turns out to be a fairy changeling. I found it on Amazon Prime. It'll give you an insight into their nature and help you understand why the fairies are to be treated with extreme caution.
@@notamused3715 Thanks! I'd heard many things about fairies, usually scary. I shall try to avoid them, if that's possible(they're forest creatures, right?).
@@chamonix2602 No bother at all Amy! Our legends say they took to the mounds and hills (raths and knocs in Irish, loads of place names begin with these words, including Knockainey/ Knoc Aine, near me, which means the Hill of Aine, Aine being a pagan goddess demoted to a woman of the Sidhe, or fairy woman and she lives under the hill there!
They do come out sometimes from under the hills and raths but you'd be grand in the woods so long as you avoid the fairy rings. The main problems occur when people cut down fairy trees which would be lone trees, fairy or blackthorn rings or building in fairy rings!
The most dangerous things in Ireland are our lunatic drivers...and the bulls in the fields, lol!
I recommend you books by Brian Froud! He explains about their aspects and the shape they take and why. But they live anywhere, not only forests.
God I hope they are real. I think the world is just weird enough for them to exist.
Don Dillon?
Just what Ireland needs. Things that spread even more misery. - fairies. For you never hear tell of them, but they tortured some poor human (who was probably already in a rough state)
Very interesting...but I must say the outdoor videography is very uncomfortable to watch...it’s too spinning and shaking.
As an Irish person, this is just sad, you can tell their just lonely old people who want a bit of attention.
As an outsider, your view of your own people, relaying stories of folklore, is sad.
You could just appreciate them for continuing traditions, but no, let's just lower their character, to attention seekers.
Let's hope you don't believe in fairies...
@@Self-Aware its a logical conclusion to come to she's old meaning most of her peers are gone and not that she had many in the first place seeing as how she lives out in the bogs where you have no public transport and no way to get into town if you cant drive or walk and shes sitting there talking about faeries like shes describing a day out with her grandson, im not calling her out for talking shite, im saying she's very obviously got a lot to talk about and no one to listen, its depressing.
And im not diminishing anything cultural because this isn't our culture, its nonsense made up by imaginative peasants with literally nothing to do apart from drinking, sleeping and farming, culture is history not fairy tales.
Oh ye of little faith………..
The church knows there are greater forces at work
Don’t interfere with forces that were here before religion