Introduction

A woman came home late at the hour of the dead. She sat down to rest, when a young man came up and talked to her. He said she would see the most beautiful dancing you ever looked on there by the side of the hill. And among them all the dead who had died as long as she could remember,. men, women and children, all in white, and their faces were pale as the moonlight. But while they were talking, the fairies came up and danced round her in a circle, joining their hands. They knew that she had got the fairy stroke.