Mr. Leland L. Duncan read a paper entitled "Fairy Beliefs and other Folklore Notes from County Leitrim." In the discussion which followed, the President, the Rev. A. Löwy, and Messrs. Gomme, Nutt, Brabrook, Kirby, Naake, Green, and Baverstock took part.
On the motion of the President a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Duncan.
The following additions to the library were reported: Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Society, 1894-95 presented by the Society; Saga-Book of the Viking Club, Vol. I., Part I., presented by the Club; Segnius Irritant: or Eight Primitive Folklore Stories, by Mr. W. W. Strickland, presented by the author; Lucifer, March, 1895, presented by Mr. W. F. Kirby; Revue des Traditions populaires, December, 1895, January and February, 1896, presented by the Société.
FAIRY BELIEFS AND OTHER FOLKLORE NOTES FROM COUNTY LEITRIM.
BY LELAND L. DUNCAN, F.S.A.
In the early part of last year the attention of folklorists was directed to a criminal case in co. Tipperary which brought prominently before the public certain aspects of the Irish fairy belief. The discussion to which this case gave rise had not quite subsided when I had occasion to visit the parish of Kiltubbrid in co. Leitrim in the autumn, and it occurred to me that a collection embodying the ideas current there on the subject would be acceptable to the members of this Society. Like many other collections of folklore there are several items here the exact point of
