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  • n  a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
  • n  the enchanted realm of fairies

  • She is born on Midsummer's Day, when legend held that Lordly Ones walked the earth to steal earth-children, leave faery changelings in their stead.
  • Lord Dunsany takes childish pride in the sag of his coat and the splay of his collar, what time he gets lost on a golden road to nowhere, beholding faery sights.
  • From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, where he heard Gaelic and faery lore.
Quotes

  • Jack B Yeats in Toronto Star
    Yeats said he gathered folk tales from one Paddy Flynn of Ballysadare, "which is, he was wont to say, `the most gentle' - whereby he meant faery - `place in the whole of County Sligo.' "

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