Beings by cycle
Folklore
Not a medieval cycle but the living oral tradition: the fairy belief and folk tale of the Irish countryside, recorded mostly in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The aos sí of the raths, the banshee, the púca, and the holy wells, gathered from speech rather than vellum.
- Folklore The Changeling The changeling is the wizened substitute the fairies of Irish folklore leave behind when they steal a healthy child or a new mother, known in Irish as an iarlais or síofra.
- Folklore The Fear Gorta and Féar Gortach The fear gorta is the emaciated famine-phantom of Irish folk belief who begs along the roads and rewards the giver, and the féar gortach is the hungry grass, a cursed patch of ground that strikes a walker with sudden killing hunger.