Toradh an rannsachaidh

A blacksmith and his apprentice copy a stranger who cures by cutting off heads, with varying success. A blacksmith and his apprentice were visited by a stranger, who asked to borrow their tools. T...

A boy is taught by the King of the Black Art, and uses shape-changing to escape from him. An old fisherman and his wife brought up a baby boy that the fisherman found floating in a box. When the b...

A young suitor offers wealth if a young woman will go with him, but she rejects all his material possessions, saying all she wants is a "fine young man".

In this ballad, two boys named William and John decide to have a wrestling contest on their way home from school, during which John is accidentally wounded by William's knife. Despite his best effo...

In this temperance song, a woman comes to find her husband at the ale-house, in order to beg him to give up drinking and return to his family; she reminds him of how different and happy their lives...

An expectant mother sees a shroud and has a white-haired baby. A young girl who was expecting a baby was coming home on a lonely road. A tree had fallen, and amongst the roots there was a shroud w...

The ghost of an old woman tries to strangle a man in bed. Bella Higgins' brother bought an old house. He and his wife were in bed, with the room lit by firelight. Bella's brother heard the door op...

A mysterious female figure on a lonely road. Bella Higgins' brother-in-law met a lady on a lonely road, wearing a rustling waterproof and dripping wet. He saw her again twice at the same place and...

First-hand account of seeing a tiny woman on a moonlit road in Ireland. Bella Higgins was in Ireland, near Mitchelstown. On a moonlit night, she went with her mother and her husband to find her fi...

An apparition like a bull calf. Bella Higgins and her family were camped in Ireland, near a ruined lodge at Pettigo. Some of the men were sitting up round the campfire, when they saw something lik...