The Grey Horse
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The Grey Horse
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The valley has a word ready for a woman like that. It is not witch. It is taken.
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Ballyvadlea, County Tipperary, 1895. The people of the valley will say afterward that they always knew there was something not right about Bridget Cleary, and they will mean it as an accusation, and they will be telling, without understanding it, the plain truth.
She is a woman who earns her own money, keeps her own hens, wears her own hat, and walks up toward the rath on Kylenagranagh when she should not. When the fever takes her, her husband goes looking for a reason, and the lore gives him one: that the woman in the bed is not his wife at all, but a thing of the other country wearing a borrowed shape, and that a changeling can be made to give the stolen place back.
The way of the doing of it is hard on the changeling. And on the fourth night Michael Cleary will go up to the fort with a black-handled knife to wait for his wife to come riding out on a grey horse.
A novel of the last woman in Ireland burned for a fairy, and of the country that was certain it was saving her.
Details
- Beverly McLeod
- Trace Press
- The Falcon's Binding, a standalone novel
- Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 108 pages