Family story of a visit from a fairy begging milk, near Whit...
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Original Track ID
SA1972.154.B5
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Summary
Family story of a visit from a fairy begging milk, near Whithorn.
A forebear of the Misses McGaw, perhaps a great great grandmother, was at work at Longhill Farm near Whithorn when a fairy came in and offered her a whelk shell in exchange for a taste of milk for a back-gaen wean [a child who was not thriving]. The woman asked the fairy to rock the cradle for her own child while she went to the dairy, but she declined to touch it, though she said she would see no ill befell it. There was a fairy mound near the farmhouse. The fairy left a blessing.
Recently the sisters were at Glasserton and spoke to a gravedigger in the churchyard who knew the story of the Longhill fairy and told them they were standing on the very spot where the woman was buried.
Item Notes
Transcribed in School of Scottish Studies.
Recording Location
Village/Place - Galloway
Item Location
County - Wigtownshire
Parish - Whithorn
Village/Place - Longhill
Language
English
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Collection
Source Type
Reel to reel
Audio Quality
Good