The haunted castle
The enchanted castle is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 22, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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A visitor to the island of Bawn Horne visits Ballinatotty Castle on the Currihihn River while hunting, from which the evil Donough O'Brian overturned his wife for accusing him of murdering her brother. Chased down the stairs by a bitch from a bedroom, the visitor falls through a weathered floor. The peasants, with whom he comes to his senses, tell of the púcas in the form of the bats that caused him to fall.
The text is without comment in Grimm.
literature
- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 230-234. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)