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Anne BailyCritiques
Auteur de Stories of Lough Guir [very short stories]
Critiques
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Before retelling five extremely short stories, Mr. Le Fanu writes about Miss Baily and a couple of relics in the Baily house.
'The Magician Earl': This is the story about how the Earl of Desmond and his castle sank to the bottom of the lake, and how he tried to trick a blacksmith.
'Moll Rial's Adventure': A young girl is washing clothes in the lake when she meets a grand-looking gentleman. The description of how clothes were washed back then (the 'beetle' sounds worse than a washboard), made me wonder just how clean they got.
'The Banshee': Miss Anne told about her only personal experience of the family banshee. ('Consumption' is an old name for tuberculosis.)
'The Governess's Dream': She dreamed about a man telling her where he had buried a treasure, but can she convince Mr. Baily to search for it?
'The Earl's Hall': The same governess has a terrible vision.
Mentions: Countess d'Aulnois, the Munster fairies, and the Hibernia Pacata.
Lovers of folktales should enjoy these.