Three women were gathering shell-fish, in the month of March, on the lowest point of the strand (Lower Rosses or Wren Point) when they heard the most beautiful music. They set to work to dance with it, and danced themselves sick. They then thanked the invisible musician and went home. Evans-Wentz 69

‘Some twenty to thirty years ago, on the borders of County Roscommon near County Sligo, according to the firm belief of one of my own relatives, a sister of his was taken by the fairies on her wedding-night, and she appeared to her mother afterwards as an apparition. She seemed to want to speak, but her mother, who was in bed at the time, was thoroughly frightened, and turned her face to the wall. The mother is convinced that she saw this apparition of her daughter, and my relative thinks she might have saved her. This same relative who gives it as his opinion that his sister was taken by the fairies, at a different time saw the apparition of another relative of mine who also, according to similar belief, had been taken by the fairies when only five years old. The child-apparition appeared beside its living sister one day while the sister was going from the yard into the house, and it followed her in. It is said the child was taken because she was such a good girl.’ Evans-Wentz’ witness here was ‘a professor in a Catholic college in West Ireland’. Evans-Wentz 69

One day while I was privileged to be at Ratra [Roscommon], Dr. Hyde invited me to walk with him in the country. After we had visited an old fort which belongs to the ‘good people’, and had noticed some other of their haunts in that part of Queen Meave’s realm, we entered a straw-thatched cottage on the roadside and found the good house-wife and her fine-looking daughter both at home. In response to Dr. Hyde’s inquiries, the mother stated that one day, in her girlhood, near a hedge from which she was gathering wild berries, she saw a leprechaun in a hole under a stone:m ‘He wasn’t much larger than a doll, and he was most perfectly formed, with a little mouth and eyes.’ Nothing was told about the little fellow having a money-bag, although the woman said people told her afterwards that she would have been rich if she had only had sense enough to catch him when she had so good a chance.  Evans-Wentz  71

The next tale the mother [in Ratra, Roscommon] told was about the death coach which used to pass by the very house we were in. Every night until after her daughter was born she used to rise up on her elbow in bed to listen to the death coach passing by. It passed about midnight, and she could hear the rushing, the tramping of the horses, and most beautiful singing, just like fairy music, but she could not understand the words. Once or twice she was brave enough to open the door and look out as the coach passed, but she could never see a thing, though there was the noise and singing. One time a man had to wait on the roadside to let the fairy horses go by, and he could hear their passing very clearly, and couldn’t see one of them.When we got home, Dr. Hyde told me that the fairies of the region are rarely seen. The people usually say that they hear or feel them only. Evans-Wentz, 71-72

One day, just before sunset in midsummer, and I a boy then, my brother and cousin and myself were gathering bilberries (whortleberries) up by the rocks at the back of here, when all at once we heard music. We hurried round the rocks, and there we were within a few hundred feet of six or eight of the gentle folk, and they dancing. When they saw us, a little woman dressed all in red came running out from them towards us, and she struck my cousin across the face with what seemed to be a green rush. We ran for home as hard as we could, and when my cousin reached the house she fell dead. Father saddled a horse and went for Father Ryan. When Father Ryan arrived, he put a stole about his neck and began praying over my cousin and reading psalms and striking her with the stole; and in that way brought her back. He said if she had not caught hold of my brother, she would have been taken for ever. (from Neil Colton, seventy-three years old, who lives in Tamlach Townland, on the shores of Lough Derg, County Donegal in Evans-Wentz, 72-73)

There were two brothers in one house in Cwm-celyn [Monmouthshire]. One night, one of them lay in the chamber below and his brother above stairs. Sometime in the night, he who lay about stairs became very thirtsy and rose up to come down to drink. When his brother heard him coming downstairs, he said to him: ‘Be cautious, for the house is full of them.’ The other (being a man of courage) answered: ‘I don’t care who is here, I will have a drink.’ The brother from the chamber saw the dancing fairies opening to give him way, both to go and return. Jones

W.E. of Hafod-y-dafol [Monmouthshire], going a journey upon the Beacon mountains (much above fourscore years ago) before sunrise, saw by his wayside the perfect likeness of a coal-race, where really there was none. There, many people were very busy: some cutting the coal; some carrying it to fill sacks; and some rising the loads upon the horses’ backs, etc. This was an agency of the fairies upon his visive faculty. This wonderful extranatural thing made a considerable impression upon his mind, and he declared it several times (once in my hearing). He was of undoubted veracity, a great man in the world, and above telling untruth. (The power of spirits, both good and bad, is very great, having not the weight of bodies to encumber and hinder their agility.) Jones

The last Apparition of the Fairies in the Parish of Aberystruth [Monmouthshire], was in the the fields of the Widow of Mr. Edmund Miles, not long before her death — Two men who were moving hay in one of her fields, the Bedwellty side of the river Ebwy Fawr, (one of whom is now an eminent man in his religious life) very early in the morning; at which time they saw the chief Servant of the House coming through the field on the other side of the river, toward them, and like a marriage company of people with some bravery, in white aprons to meet him; they met him and passed by, but of whom he seemed to them to take no notice. They asked the servant if he saw the marriage company ? he said ” No ” , at the same time they could hardly think any marriage could come that way, and that time of the day. This certainly must have been Fairies, and was partly a pressage of Mrs. Miles’s death, and partly it may be of the marriage of her daughter, — the heiress of the estate after the death of her brother Mr. John Miles, with that servant : the account of the Fairies, resembling a marriage company, could not be kept a secret from Mrs. Miles, which when she heard of it, gave her a deal of uneasiness, as she understood it as a pressage of her death, as indeed it was. Jones

There was a young woman called Anne William Frances [in Bassaleg parish Monmouthshire], who, on going by night into a little grove of wood, near the house, heard pleasant music, and saw a company of Fairies dancing there : she took a pail of water there thinking it would gratify them. The next time she went there she had a shilling gave her, and so had for several nights after, until she had twenty one Shillings: her mother happening to find the money, questioned her where she had them, fearing she had stolen them; the girl would by no means tell until her mother went very severe upon her, threatening to beat her if she did not inform her how she came by it; she was then obliged to relate to her the circumstance, and they gave her no more money afterwards. I have heard of other places where people have had money from the Fairies, sometimes silver sixpences, but most commonly copper coin. As they cannot make money, it certainly must be money lost, or concealed by persons. Jones

Another time — The same person coming home by night from a journey, when near Ty yn y Llwyn [Monmouthshire],saw the resemblance of fire, the west side of the river, on his right hand; and looking towards the Mountain near the rock Tarren y Trwyn, on his left hand, all of a sudden, saw the fire near him on one side, and the appearance of a mastiff dog on the other side, at which he was exceedingly terrified. The appearance of a mastiff dog was a most dreadful sight. He called at Ty yn y Llwyn, requesting the favour of a person to accompany him home? The man of the house being acquainted with him, sent two of his servants with him home. My thoughts of Mr T. H. M. are, that he was a man of an affable disposition, innocent and harmless, and a respecter of what is good in his later days. His children also; his son and two daughters were godly and religious. He was the grand-father of that eminent and famous preacher of the Gospel Mr. Thomas Lewis, of Lanharan, in Glamorganshire. Jones