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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Burning of Bridget Cleary

by Angela Bourke

A study of the 1895 killing of Bridget Cleary in County Tipperary by her husband, who claimed she was a fairy changeling. Bourke places the case within Irish fairy belief, rural social change, gender and the politics of Home Rule.

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