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Mike Farrell - Reading Father Brannan's mind and meeting the Gentry
Identifier
013962
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, by W.Y. Evans-Wentz, [1911]
The following story, which like this last has numerous Irish parallels, illustrates an ancient and world-wide animistic belief, that in sickness--as in dreams--the soul goes out of the body as at death, and meets the dead in their own fairy world.
The Clairvoyance of Mike Farrell.--'Mike Farrell, too, could tell all about the gentry, as he lay sick a long time.
And he told about Father Brannan's youth, and even the house in Roscommon in which the Father was born; and Father Brannan never said anything more against Mike after that.
Mike surely saw the gentry; and he was with them during his illness for twelve months. He said they live in forts and at Alt Darby ("the Big Rock").
After he got well, he went to America, at the time of the famine.'