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What the Dullahan uses to travel
What is a horse?
A skill of the POOKA that makes it the most feared faery in the legends of Ireland
What is SHAPE-SHIFTING?
Most faery babies are deformed, sickly, and often die after birth, so the faery women swap human babies for these
What are CHANGLINGS?
In certain parts of Ireland, this faery would travel by sea wearing a red cap or fur coat. If a man could hide the clothing of this faery, he could force her to marry him
What are MERROWS?
Also known as the BEAN-SIDHE, this faery only cries for 5 families of Ireland: the O'Neills, the O'Briens, the O'Connors, the O'Gradys, and the Kavanaghs.
What is BANSHEE?
It is what the Dullahan fears most!
What is GOLD?
The form the Pooka most often appears in
What is a HORSE?
What is Christened or BAPTISED?
Unlike their female counterparts, males of these faeries have rarely been seen. They have been described as exceptionally ugly and scaled, with pig-like features and long, pointed teeth
What are MERMEN?
This Irish creature that some say teams up with the Dullahan is often called this
What is the WAILING WOMAN?
What is his head?
Considered the origin of this word which means to have terrible visions during the slumber hours
What is a NIGHTMARE?
This is what is the characteristic or feature that is the mark of a CHANGLING in babies
What is a BAD TEMPERAMENT?
Its name thought to be derived from the Irish leath bhrogan (shoemaker), its origins may lie in luacharma'n (Irish for pygmy).
What is a LEPRECHAUN?
Known in Ireland as the DEARG-DUE, this mythological creature is common throughout MANY mythologies
What is a VAMPIRE?
This happens if the Dullahan stops during his late-night rides
What is a MORTAL dies
What the POOKA does during its ride through the countryside at night
What is the destruction of CROPS and SCARING CHICKENS?
A changeling can be one of three types: actual fairy children; senile fairies who are disguised as children or this
What are INANIMATE OBJECTS or sometimes LOGS!
If this faery is caught by a mortal, it will promise great wealth if allowed to go free. He carries two leather pouches. In one there is a silver shilling, a magical coin that returns to the purse each time it is paid out. In the other, he carries this
What is a GOLD COIN?
Originally half-human, half-fairy aborigines who came from Kintyre in Scotland to settle in Ireland, there are no females of this type of faery.
What is a GROGOCH?
The Dullahan uses "this" as a whip!
What is a HUMAN SPINE?
The High King of Ireland, Brian Boru, was the only mortal to tame the POOKA by adding these to the POOKA's Bridle
What are 3 hairs from the POOKA'S TAIL?
What CHANGLINGS are often very good at
What is playing an INSTRUMENT?
These faeries have also become self-appointed guardians of ancient treasure which was left by THESE PEOPLE when they marauded through Ireland, burying it in crocks or pots.
Who are the DANES?
Also known as the Celtic SEA MONSTER, this faery often tricks women and children resulting in their death by drowning
What is a KELPIE?