{"id":463,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/woman-who-removed-a-thorn-from-a-seals-fin-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:16:48","slug":"woman-who-removed-a-thorn-from-a-seals-fin-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/woman-who-removed-a-thorn-from-a-seals-fin-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Who Removed a Thorn from a Seal&#8217;s Fin, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Woman Who Removed a Thorn from a Seal&#8217;s Fin, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-463-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/woman-who-removed-a-thorn-from-a-seals-fin-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/woman-who-removed-a-thorn-from-a-seals-fin-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/woman-who-removed-a-thorn-from-a-seals-fin-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/woman-who-removed-a-thorn-from-a-seals-fin-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> Woman Who Removed a Thorn from a Seal&#8217;s Fin, 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> 840113.<\/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> unavailable.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai\">D\u00e1ta an taifeadta <span class=\"lipead-meiteashonrai-bearla\">(Recording Date)<\/span>:<\/span> 22\/11\/1983.<\/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> evening class.<\/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 woman of the roads &nbsp; a travelling woman &nbsp; and her two children are walking by the edge of the sea, when they see a seal lying on a rock. This particular seal appears to be in pain, moaning; and when the woman approaches it shows no fear, but allows her to remove a thorn from its fin. The seal looks very grateful to have the thorn removed, and departs out to sea.<\/p>\n<p>Some time later, the woman and her two children are in another part of Ireland, and they come to a house. The door is opened to them by a handsome old man, who invites them in. As he makes them welcome, he asks the woman about any interesting experiences she might have had. &#8216;I don&#8217;t get out much,&#8217; he tells her.<\/p>\n<p>At first she says she can&#8217;t think of anything. &#8216;I just have my two children here, and an older daughter who&#8217;s working; I don&#8217;t know how she&#8217;s getting on.&#8217; When the man asks her again, she at length recalls the incident with the seal, and remarks on how thankful the creature appeared to be once the thorn was removed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Your&#8217;re right about that,&#8217; observed the old man. &#8216;I was that seal.&#8217; He tells her he had been put under an enchantment by his stepmother, and would have lived in the form of a seal his whole life unless someone was kind enough to remove the thorn from his fin. The next time he came out of the water, he told her, he had resumed his human form, as a rich man.<\/p>\n<p>He told the woman to send for her daughter so that she could marry his son, and that the woman and her other two children were welcome to live with them there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p>Seals were believed to be magical creatures; see Joe&#8217;s story about The Seal-Woman. Other stories involving the enchantment of people into different forms include Ois\u00edn in T\u00edr na n\u00d3g and The Twelve Swans; in The Witch in the Stone Boat the enchanted character is the witch herself.<\/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-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","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=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}