{"id":545,"date":"2015-10-06T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/sliabh-na-mban-is-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-01-25T15:22:06","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T15:22:06","slug":"sliabh-na-mban-is-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/sliabh-na-mban-is-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Sliabh na mBan is on Fire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 id=\"t:seinnteoirin1\">Play recording: Sliabh na mBan is on Fire!<\/h2>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-545-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/sliabh-na-mban-is-on-fire.mp3?_=1\" \/><source type=\"audio\/ogg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/sliabh-na-mban-is-on-fire.ogg?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/sliabh-na-mban-is-on-fire.mp3\">https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/00-micil\/me\u00e1in\/sliabh-na-mban-is-on-fire.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> Sliabh na mBan is on Fire!.<\/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> probably 19\/10\/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> 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 woman is spinning, or knitting, one night beside the fire. A knock comes to the door. When the woman opens it, she sees a witch standing there with two horns &#8211; and she immediately shuts the door on her.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards she hears a little voice from outside. &#8216;Are you in there, Feet-Water?&#8217; A tiny voice answers &#8216;Yes.&#8217; &#8216;Open the door and let me in.&#8217; A little serpent creeps out of the pan of water in which people have washed their feet before going to bed, lifts the latch, and lets the woman with the horns inside.<\/p>\n<p>The witch sits down next to the woman of the house, and starts knitting herself. Another dozen fairies then follow her in, and they too start knitting. Presently one of them asks the woman of the house for something to eat. When she says she has no water in the house to make tea for them, they send her out to the well.<\/p>\n<p>While she is at the well, she hears the voice of a neighbour who has died, warning her that the ones she has let into the house mean to kill her before morning. &#8216;Go back and tell them,&#8217; she advises, &#8216;that the Mountain of the Women<sup class=\"tagairt-n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1<\/sup> is on fire.&#8217; After telling them that, she should get a cinder from the fire, put it into the feet-water, and throw the feet-water out under the door, throw the wool that they were using into the fire, and see what happens then.<\/p>\n<p>So she goes back inside and shouts to the fairies, &#8216;Sliabh na mBan is on fire!&#8217; The women all run out; and the minute they are out, she puts a cinder into the feet-water, throws it under the door, and throws the wool into the fire as instructed. Shortly there comes a voice from outside, &#8216;Let us in, Feet-Water!&#8217; The serpent replies, &#8216;I can&#8217;t! I&#8217;m burnt! I&#8217;m under your feet here!&#8217; Then, &#8216;Let us in, Wool!&#8217; &#8216;No, I can&#8217;t, I&#8217;m burnt in the fire!&#8217; She never sees them again.<\/p>\n<div class=\"n\u00f3ta\u00ed-bun-leathanaigh\">\n<h2 id=\"t:notai\">Notes<\/h2>\n<p class=\"n\u00f3ta-bun-leathanaigh\">1. As Joe explains, Sliabh na mBan (in Co. Tipperary) &#8211; which in English means &#8216;the Mountain of the Women&#8217; &#8211; is where the fairies were supposed to gather. Cnoc Meadha (near Tuam, Co. Galway) is another such site.<\/p>\n<p>Versions of this well-known tale are discussed by T. F. O&#8217;Rahilly in a short article, &#8216;Sliabh na mBan bhFionn tr\u00ed theine!&#8217; in Gadelica: A Journal of Modern Irish Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4 (1913), 277-9.<\/p>\n<p>Elements of this story relate to a number of other items in Joe&#8217;s repertoire. See The woman who found a bucket of blood in her kitchen, The Fairy and the Wool, Sliabh na mBan is on Fire!, traditions about the P\u00faca and other spirits, and the Foot-Water Rhyme.<\/p>\n<p>Date given is 19 October 1984, which is probably the broadcast date; Joe Heaney died in May of that year.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"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-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scealaiocht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1643,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeheaney.org\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}