| Summary: | Emma Tennier-Stuart interviewing Patrick Carew in the Alderwood Estates retirement home about fairy lore in Witless Bay, Newfoundland. Recorded by Andrea McGuire 0:00 – Preamble; 0:23 – Names for fairies; little people; 1:15 – Most people don’t believe in fairies anymore; stopped believing seventy or eighty years ago; everyone believed when he was a child; 0:55 – Doesn’t know how to describe fairies; 2:20 – Visited a man who told scary ghost stories at night; coming home along the road afterward, saw sheep he thought were ghosts or fairies; 4:40 – Take bread to protect self in the woods; 5:05 – woods are risky; 5:15 – Never heard of wearing protective medals; 5:30 – There are no good fairies; 5:45 – Story about a man who pretended to be a ghost to scare a friend on his way home from the pub; 7:00 – Not sure of the difference between ghosts and fairies; 7:10 – Fairies considered bad because they took people, though he never believed that much; fairy belief has died out; 7:45 – house near Bay Bulls with spooky lights; 8:25 – Only story he knows of fairies taking someone was that of a woman found sitting on a rock, but no harm was done to her; 9:45 – No stories of people being different after being taken by the fairies; 9:55 – He was warned to be careful of the fairies as a child, but there never were any fairies; 10:30 – Never heard of fairies being fallen angels; “The ones I heard of were no angels.”; 10:50 – Priests and nuns never talked about fairies; 11:15 – There are more ghost stories than fairy stories, but nobody believes them anymore.
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