The Bean Tighe, Invention of an 'Irish' Fairy [revised]  Usually when I write about fairies here (or elsewhere) I'm writing about fairies as they are found in existing material or anecdotal accounts. Today I would like to take a look at a fairy that can be found in multiple 21st century sources online identified as an Irish fairy yet is not to be found anywhere in Irish folklore. I want to point this example out today and talk about how this
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