The apparition of O'Donoghue
The apparition of O'Donoghue is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 27, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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The land around Lake Lean was once ruled by the wise war hero and Prince O'Donoghue. He made his subjects happy and once locked his own son on a rocky island for wrongdoing. At one of his May Day celebrations, he spoke prophetically about the families of his listeners and walked across the water. To some it appeared later on May holidays at sunrise as an omen of good harvest. At last he rode in shining armor with a dancing entourage behind a wave to heavenly music across the lake.
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According to Grimm, the legend was very popular in Killarney and is received literarily. They compare the Count von Kildare , who inspects his soldiers on the plain on an August night, and German legends about the Rodensteiner .
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 246–248, 276. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irish fairy tales. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer , Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)