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'Stories of Lough Guir' (1870) are based upon the stories J. Sheridan Le Fanu had been told by Miss Anne Baily of Lough Guir years before. I read them in Ghost Stories and Mysteries [of J. Sheridan LeFanu, (more usually spelled 'Le Fanu')],
Before retelling five extremely short stories, Mr. Le Fanu writes about Miss Baily and a couple of relics in the Baily house.
'The Magician Earl': This is the story about how the Earl of Desmond and his castle sank to the bottom of the lake, and how he tried to trick a blacksmith.
'Moll Rial's Adventure': A young girl is washing clothes in the lake when she meets a grand-looking gentleman. The description of how clothes were washed back then (the 'beetle' sounds worse than a washboard), made me wonder just how clean they got.
'The Banshee': Miss Anne told about her only personal experience of the family banshee. ('Consumption' is an old name for tuberculosis.)
'The Governess's Dream': She dreamed about a man telling her where he had buried a treasure, but can she convince Mr. Baily to search for it?
'The Earl's Hall': The same governess has a terrible vision.
Mentions: Countess d'Aulnois, the Munster fairies, and the Hibernia Pacata.
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When the present writer was a boy of twelve or thirteen, he first made acquaintance of Miss Anne Baily, of Lough Guir, in the county of Limerick. (framing sequence)
It is well known that the great Earl of Desmond, though history pretends to dispose of him differently, lives to this hour enchanted in his castle, with all his household, at the bottom of the lake. ('The Magician Earl')
When Miss Anne Baily was a child, Moll Rial was an old woman. ('Moll Rial's Adventure')
So old a Munster family as the Bailys, of Lough Guir, could not fail to have their attendant banshee. ('The Banshee')
This lady, one morning, with a grave countenance that indicated something weighty upon her mind, told her pupils that she had, on the night before, had a very remarkable dream. ('The Governess's Dream')
The good governess had a particular liking for the old castle, and when lessons were over, would take her book or her work into a large room in the ancient building, called the Earl's Hall. ('The Earl's Hall')
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But what, in the event of his succeeding, would befall the person whom he had thus ensnared, no one knows. ('The Magician Earl')
Here was the earl once again, and Moll Rial declared that if it had not been for that frightful transformation of the water she would have spoken to him next minute, and would thus have passed under a spell, perhaps as direful as his own. ('Moll Rial's Adventure')
This same governess remained with them to the time of her death, which occurred some years later, under the following circumstances as extraordinary as her dream. ('The Governess's Dream')
Of course it is possible that fever, already approaching, had touched her brain when she was visited by the phantom, and that it had no external existence. ('The Earl's Hall')
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Before retelling five extremely short stories, Mr. Le Fanu writes about Miss Baily and a couple of relics in the Baily house.
'The Magician Earl': This is the story about how the Earl of Desmond and his castle sank to the bottom of the lake, and how he tried to trick a blacksmith.
'Moll Rial's Adventure': A young girl is washing clothes in the lake when she meets a grand-looking gentleman. The description of how clothes were washed back then (the 'beetle' sounds worse than a washboard), made me wonder just how clean they got.
'The Banshee': Miss Anne told about her only personal experience of the family banshee. ('Consumption' is an old name for tuberculosis.)
'The Governess's Dream': She dreamed about a man telling her where he had buried a treasure, but can she convince Mr. Baily to search for it?
'The Earl's Hall': The same governess has a terrible vision.
Mentions: Countess d'Aulnois, the Munster fairies, and the Hibernia Pacata.
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