{"id":444,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/fairy-greyhound-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T11:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T11:14:33","slug":"fairy-greyhound-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/fairy-greyhound-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairy Greyhound, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Fairy Greyhound, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-444-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fairy-greyhound-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fairy-greyhound-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fairy-greyhound-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/fairy-greyhound-the.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"dmeite\">\n<p><span id=\"neasc-nocht-ceilth\" class=\"nmeite\">view \/ hide recording details [+\/-]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul id=\"clarMeiteashonrai\" class=\"meiteashonrai\">\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teideal <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Title)<\/span>:<\/span> Fairy Greyhound, The.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chatal\u00f3ige Ollscoil Washington <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(University of Washington Catalogue Number)<\/span>:<\/span> 841421.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Chnuasach Bh\u00e9aloideas \u00c9ireann <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(National Folklore of Ireland Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Roud <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Roud Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Laws <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Laws Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Uimhir Child <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Child Number)<\/span>:<\/span> none.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Cnuasach <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Collection)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney Collection, University of Washington, Seattle.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Teanga na Cro\u00edmh\u00edre <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Core-Item Language)<\/span>:<\/span> English.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Catag\u00f3ir <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Category)<\/span>:<\/span> story.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a thug <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Informant)<\/span>:<\/span> Joe Heaney.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Ainm an t\u00e9 a th\u00f3g <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Name of Collector)<\/span>:<\/span> Joan Rabinowitz.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Su\u00edomh an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Location)<\/span>:<\/span> University of Washington, United States of America.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Oc\u00e1id an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Occasion)<\/span>:<\/span> radio programme (KRAB).<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">Daoine eile a bh\u00ed i l\u00e1thair <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Others present)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">St\u00e1das ch\u00f3ipcheart an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording copyright status)<\/span>:<\/span> unavailable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>A child, shortly to be baptised, is abducted from its home one night by the fairies, who leave a changeling in its place. The screams of the child are heard by a man living nearby, who is meant to have been the child&#8217;s godfather the following day. This man possesses a greyhound who, hearing the child&#8217;s wails as it is spirited down the road, tears at the door to get out. At length the owner lets it out, and follows the dog on foot so as not to lose the valuable animal. Eventually the man catches up with the greyhound, and discovers the missing child nestled between its front legs for warmth.<\/p>\n<p>The man takes the child home and entrusts it to his elderly mother; he then goes to the house of the neighbor, who is distraught from discovering that her baby has &#8211; as she thinks &#8211; died. The man builds a roaring turf fire, and then looks into the cradle where the supposedly-dead baby is lying, and catches it laughing. He threatens the &#8216;corpse&#8217; with disposal in the fire, whereupon &#8216;the quare fellow&#8217; &#8211; the fairy changeling &#8211; disappears in a spark through the roof. The man then goes home, returns with the actual infant, and restores it to its mother.<\/p>\n<p>Joe swears that this actually happened, and that his grandmother knew the woman who, as a baby, had been rescued by the greyhound, and that the the people were so impressed with the greyhound that they honoured him with a wake and a funeral when he died, and put up a statue in his memory.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>A number of Joe&#8217;s songs and stories relate to the belief in people being stolen by fairies. See Th\u00e1inig Bean Cois Leasa, The Fairy Boy, The Fairy Frog, The Woman Who Came Back from the Dead, Why children are stolen by the fairies, The Changeling, and the lullabies Seoith\u00edn, Seo-h\u00f3 and D\u00fan do Sh\u00fail.<\/p>\n<p>This story may be related to AT 101, &#8216;Old dog as rescuer of child.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A recording date of 19th October 1984 appears in the documentation but this is likely to be the broadcast date, as Joe Heaney died in May of that year.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"templates\/template-full-width.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1460,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/1460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}