Leanan sídhe

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One can find more information about leannán sídhe in older texts and folk lore. Though they are not called leannán sídhe directly, they fit the descriptions to be a 'leannán sídhe. Books to look into, with the specific stories to read are: Katherine Briggs' "The Fairy Follower" in Folktales of England; the story "Oisin in the Land of Youth" in Ancient Irish Tales; "The Dream of Angus" in Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne; and the poem called "Fuadach/ Abduction" by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

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  1. ^ Yeats, W.B (1888). Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Walter Scott. p. 81.