Martin plays chat show host once again! Steve Lally, the story teller behind our Samhain Stories goes full on Draculally to talk about Fairies. And introduce his sidekick.... Dr Woodiestein.
Count Draculally has four amazing tales for you this week, starting with the Fairy Tree.
"This is a story that I wrote myself based on a mean old farmer who cuts down a Fairy Tree on his land one Halloween even though he was warned not to do so by so many people, but he thought he knew better!"
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Coming up over the next few days the Count tells us more about what he has on offer...
'Atty Jack'
"This is a lovely folktale collected by 'Francis McPolin', the late great Co. Down Folklorist and is included in my book of 'Down Folk Tales’."
‘The Rathcoffey Pooka’
"This a famous old Irish Folk Tale that was originally collected by ‘Patrick Kennedy’, the Wexford Folklorist. It hails from my native County Kildare and the townland in which I grew up."
‘Wee Meg Barney Leg’
"This is a lovely story form County Fermanagh, which was collected by The American folklorist ‘Ruth Sawyer’ and was passed on to me by the Co. Down Storyteller ‘Doreen McBride’. It appears in our book ‘Irish Gothic – Fairy Stories from the 32 Counties of Ireland’."
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