My mom's side of the family is Irish. So my grandma would tell me stories about my great-grandpa who was from Ireland. Just small stories, such as the fact that he had a musical ear and could play almost every instrument. (I wish it passed on through the family.) I've always been into paranormal things, so I would always ask her if he had encountered anything out of the ordinary throughout his life. Her memory was vague, so she asked her sister Mary, and Mary reminded her of his banshee incidents back in County Cork Ireland.

　　My grandma explained to me what Mary had remembered her father telling her as a kid. A banshee, before I go on, is an Irish myth. A ghost that protects an Irish family throughout eternity without showing itself, unless someone in the family dies. Since the banshee can predict the future, it knows who is going to die beforehand. So it mourns under the moonlight, with cries more like the wind and shows itself to someone in the family (preferably the one who isn't going to die). It gets so sad because it is a part of the family.
　　So anyway, when my great grandpa was a kid he would ride home on a horse, back in Ireland, through the fields from school dances. So once in a while his horse would stop dead in its tracks, because you know animals can sense things people can't. My great grandpa would tell it to trudge on, but it wouldn't budge

　　我母亲娘家在爱尔兰，因此姥姥总是给我讲一些太姥爷在爱尔兰的故事。那都是些很短的小故事，比如他非常喜欢音乐，几乎能演奏任何乐器。（但愿这能一辈一辈地传下去。）我总是对那些不同寻常的事情感兴趣，因此我就问她是不是太姥爷遇到过那些奇异的事情。姥姥的记性已经模糊了，于是就问她妹妹玛丽还记不记得类似的事情，玛丽姥姥就想起了太姥爷在科克郡与女妖的那次遭遇。

　　姥姥告诉我说玛丽姥姥回忆起来的事情还是在她小时候听太姥爷说的了。我马上要讲到的爱尔兰女妖，是个爱尔兰神话。她是个鬼魂，一生一世保护着一个爱尔兰人家庭，除非家里有人去世否则人们是不会看见她的。由于女妖能预知未来，因此她也就知道谁马上就要死去了。于是她就在月光下痛哭，声音就像风声一样，让家里的一个人（不会是即将要去世的那个人）能够看见她。她哭的是那么的悲伤，因为她也是这个家庭的一部分。

　　那时太姥爷还是个孩子，每天放学后就骑着马穿过农田回家，一边走一边手舞足蹈。有一次，马突然停下来，因为我们都知道动物能感觉的我们人感觉不到的东西。太姥爷想赶它继续走，但是那匹马一动也不动。