{"id":464,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/woman-who-caught-a-husband-the\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T16:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T16:14:33","slug":"woman-who-caught-a-husband-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/woman-who-caught-a-husband-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Who Caught a Husband, The"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Woman Who Caught a Husband, The<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-464-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/woman-who-caught-a-husband-the.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/woman-who-caught-a-husband-the.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/woman-who-caught-a-husband-the.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/woman-who-caught-a-husband-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 Caught a Husband, 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> 840119.<\/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> 24\/01\/1984.<\/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>There is a man whose wife has died. She gave birth shortly before she died, so there is a young baby in the house. The night of the woman&#8217;s burial, a neighbour stays with the husband overnight, and this man is awake in the middle of the night when he sees the door open and the dead woman come into the house, feed the baby, and leave again. He tells the husband what he saw, and the husband makes him promise to waken him if she comes again that night.<\/p>\n<p>The woman does come at midnight the second night; but the husband is so fast asleep that the neighbour is unable to rouse him. The next morning, the husband tells his neighbour to gather a bunch of nettles &mdash; stinging nettles &mdash; and put them on his back if she turns up again, as they will be sure to waken him.<\/p>\n<p>The neighbour does as he is asked; and just as the woman is leaving the house on the third night, her husband speaks to her. &#8216;I can&#8217;t stay,&#8217; she says, &#8216;this is my last night visiting.&#8217; But she tells him what he must do to get her back.<\/p>\n<p>The woman has been abducted by the fairies &mdash; as Joe explains, women who have just given birth are in demand among the fairies to nurse their own infants. To reclaim her and restore her to the mortal world, the husband is instructed to get a drop of water from the local weaver that he has used to put over the cloth, along with a string from the cloth he&#8217;s making. Put these items in a saucepan and boil them, and then add some cow dung. Take the mixture out to the stile, and throw it over the last person he feels crossing the stile at midnight.<\/p>\n<p>The man follows these instructions, and his wife is restored to him. Joe says that his own mother knew the woman in question.<\/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 Fairy Greyhound, 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<\/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-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","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=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}