7. Éilís Ní Dhuibhne – “Midwife to the Fairies”
In this story, a midwife is called on one night to assist a woman in labour, only to have to keep a terrible secret from the police in the days that follow.
" After a while they came to a steep hill. A door opened in the side of the hill and they went in. They rode until they came to a big house and inside there were lots of people, eating and drinking. In the corner of the house there lay a woman in labour."
Eilis Ni Dhuibhne
It's a wonderful 'fairy tale', with all the darkness of that genre.
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