Irish Folklore Says That When a Person Experiences Mental Illness

Irish folklore would say that when a person experiences mental illness, something quite severe, such as scitsophrania. This is a changeling, a kind of false human that the fairies leave behind. And your real sibling is away with the fairies in the woods. And ycan ver get them back. Unfortunately, this led to some stories of human sacrifice, where if a person was to experience severe mental illness, in the 17 hundreds or 18 hundred, this even happened with a woman called bridget clery,. But sometimes people would be killed. It was a way to for people to co up with having a family member who was mentally ill and wasn't fully present.