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  • The Fairy Witch of Carrick-on-Suir: A Nineteenth-Century Fairy Resurrectionist December 1, 2022

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Modern
    The Fairy Witch of Carrick-on-Suir: A Nineteenth-Century Fairy Resurrectionist

    James Hayes in court 2 Sept 1864 : ‘It is not so extraordinary… for persons to be raised from the dead’. Introduction Mary Doheny (1820s-1870s?), the subject of our latest podcast, was a nineteenth-century Irish ‘fairy woman’. She began her career as a herbalist. But Mary had too much talent and too much personality to […]