Submerge yourself in this interesting and thoroughly investigated true story from late 19th century Ireland. The facts of the case are relatively basic: in 1895, 26-year-old Bridget Cleary vanished from her house in countryside Tipperary. Local gossips asserted that she had been taken by fairies to their fortification of Kylenagranagh, from where she would finally emerge riding a white horse. (Parsons, 317-319) But when her poorly burned body was discovered from a shallow grave a week later, her husband Michael, father, aunt and four cousins were arrested. The subsequent trial made headlin…
