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back with the pins extracted by the fairies. At Bellevy on the 

 Bann, one evening, a little woman came at milking-time to the 

 door of a cottage, and asked for some meal, which she was 

 refused, when, to requite the insult, the Sheoque said she would 

 be revenged. Very shortly afterwards the byre and cows were 

 burned, with two children of the house. Young girls used to 

 gather yarrow upon May Eve, and put it under their pillows 

 that night, to induce dreams about their future husbands. 

 Similar freaks for similar objects were performed at All Hallows' 

 Eve. Sometimes the looms in a cottage would be heard working 

 all night, and the owner would be quite certain that all the ends 

 would be broken in the morning, but it was always found the 

 deenee shee had done no harm. At Lis-la-ard on moonlight 

 nights, the midnight traveller has often heard the gentry singing 

 and dancing around the old rath there. On Midsummer Eve 

 they were at their gayest, and could be heard some distance off. 



By the craggy hill-side, 

 Through the mosses bare, 

 They have planted thorn-trees, 

 For pleasure here and there. 



Up the airy mountain, 

 Down the rushy glen, 

 We daren't go a hunting 

 For fear of little men ; 

 Wee folk, good folk, 

 Trooping all together, 

 Green jacket, red cap, 

 And white owl's feather. 



Several members spoke of the value of such contributions to 

 local folk-lore, and expressed the hope that more communica- 

 tions of the kind would be forthcoming to aid the work of the 

 new Ethnographical Committee. 



The second paper was by Mr. William Gray, M.R.I.A., and 

 was entitled " Worked Flints : Ancient and Modern." Mr. Gray 

 said: — Primitive man was a Naturalist — a Field Naturalist — pure 

 and simple, for he studied nature in the field. The phenomena 

 of nature, physical and organic, were to him subjects of the 



