Irish Fairies and Irish Food: The Mary Doheny Trial

“Now what, on earth, is going on in this account? The newspapers that wrote about Doheny described her as a ‘witch,’ but it would be closer to the truth to call her a ‘fairy woman’ or a ‘fairy doctor’: the nineteenth-century media, particularly in Britain, constantly misunderstood Irish fairy superstitions, confusing the same with witchcraft...” By Dr Simon Young.

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