When Irish Eyes Are Lying Quotes

“It’s a throwback to that time. But anyway, the mother was ready to place the child on a fire, the belief at the time being that the changeling would go up the chimney and the real child would return, but my grandmother stopped her. She knew it was no changeling. The child was sickening for something, and so she made up a tincture of herbs and did a blessing, a healing of the child, and he was fine.”
― Jean Grainger, When Irish Eyes Are Lying

“She said that her child had been taken by the Good People and had been replaced by a changeling, a thin, cranky child that would not thrive and ate all the time and was never full or satisfied. My grandmother called to look at the child. A boy it was, and the fairies were more inclined to take boy children – it was why they dressed boys as girls long ago, grew their hair long, and why all christening robes today are dresses, for boys and girls.”
― Jean Grainger, When Irish Eyes Are Lying

“My grandmother had a story about a woman who thought she had the knowledge – this is going back years and years ago now.”
― Jean Grainger, When Irish Eyes Are Lying