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Bridget Cleary, Sex, Death, Fairies and Other

Lisa L. Spangenberg | October 21, 2007

This is the third in a series of posts about fairies as other. I promised, in my first post, to concentrate on fairies as other, particularly in the context of sex and death, because, as MacAllister Stone notes “other is all about sex and death.” Last time I looked at the tragic death of Bridget [...]

Bridget Cleary: Fairy Intrusion in Nineteenth Century Ireland

Lisa L. Spangenberg | October 13, 2007

Are you a witch?Are you a fairy?Are you the wife Of Michael Cleary?—Children’s rhyme from Southern Tipperary, Ireland
I promised in my first post on fairies as other to look at a fairy intrusion in nineteenth century Ireland, specifically, the fairy burning of Bridget Cleary.
In March of 1895 Bridget Boland Cleary was a trained seamstress, with [...]