“Oh, child, stay with me, for I have no other daughter, and if the
fairies take you from me I shall die.”
When the girl heard this, she fell on her mother’s neck and kissed her,
and promised that she would never again go near the fairy rath while
she lived, for the fairy doctor told her that if ever she lay down
there again and slept, she would never return alive to her home any
more.