The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various CountriesKeightley, Thomas
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The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries
Keightley, Thomas
Fairies; Fairy tales; Folk literature; Folklore
Yet in the county of Cork it would seem that the Cluricaun, of which we
shall presently speak, used to enact the part of Nis or Boggart. Mr.
Croker tells a story of a little being, which he calls a Cluricaun, that
haunted the cellar of a Mr. Macarthy, and in a note on this tale he
gives the contents of a letter informing him of another ycleped Little
Wildbean, that haunted the house of a Quaker gentleman named Harris, and
which is precisely the Nis or Boggart. This Wildbean, who kept to the
cellar, would, if one of the servants through negligence left the
beer-barrel running, wedge himself into the cock and stop it, till some
one came to turn it. His dinner used to be left for him in the cellar,
and the cook having, one Friday, left him nothing but part of a herring
and some cold potatoes, she was at midnight dragged out of her bed, and
down the cellar-stairs, and so much bruised that she kept her bed for
three weeks. In order at last to get rid of him, Mr. Harris resolved to
remove, being told that if he went beyond a running stream the Cluricaun
could not follow him. The last cart, filled with empty barrels and such
like, was just moving off, when from the bung-hole of one of them
Wildbean cried out, "Here, master! here we go all together!" "What!"
said Mr. Harris, "dost thou go also?" "Yes, to be sure, master. Here we
go, all together!" "In that case, friend," replied Mr. Harris, "let the
carts be unloaded; we are just as well where we are." It is added, that
"Mr. Harris died soon after, but it is said the Cluricaun still haunts
the Harris family."
In another of these Fairy Legends, Teigue of the Lee, who haunted the
house of a Mr. Pratt, in the county of Cork, bears a strong
resemblance to the Hinzelmann of Germany. To the story, which is
exceedingly well told by a member of the society of Friends, now no
more, also the narrator of the Legend of Bottle-hill, Mr. Croker has
in his notes added some curious particulars.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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