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"Wurrah dheelish! No? now is it possible ye didn't?" She then described her, but all declared they had seen no such person. "Bartley, whisper," said she, and beckoning him over to her, in a few words she revealed the secret. The husband grew pale, and crossed himself. "Mother of Saints! childhre," said he, "a Lianhan Shee!"
Every one now told some magnified and terrible circumstance, illustrating the formidable power of the Lianhan Shee.
The words were no sooner uttered than every countenance assumed the pallidness of death: and every right hand was raised in the act of blessing the person, and crossing the forehead. "The Lianhan Shee!!" all exclaimed in fear and horror "This day's Friday, God betwixt us an' harm!"* * This short form is supposed to be a safeguard against the Fairies. The particular day must be always named.
Was ever the likes seen! an' they must know right well, sir, that you're widin in it." "Who are coming?" he inquired. "Why the woman, sir, an' her good pet, the Lianhan Shee, your Reverence." "Well," said he, "but why should you all appear so blanched with terror?
None, however, had courage to grapple with her, or to attempt expelling her by violence, lest a signal vengeance might be taken on any who dared to injure a woman that could call in the terrible aid of the Lianhan Shee.
The Lianhan Shee, your Reverence, is never seen only by thim it keeps wid; but hem! it always, with the help of the ould boy, conthrives, sir, to make the person brake the agreement, an' thin it has thim in its power; but if they don't brake the agreement, thin it's in their power.
She therefore experienced something like a conflict between her fears and a love of that wealth, the possession of which was so plainly intimated to her. "The money," said she, "would be one thing, but to have the Lianhan Shee planted over a body's shouldher och; the saints preserve us! no, not for oceans' of hard goold would I have it in my company one minnit.
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