Lianhan Shee & Other Poems

The spirits of the Irish Travellers folklore have much in common with the folklore stories of the Irish and the Scots, among them the story of the Lianhan Shee...

• Each Year New Flowers Bloom
  
• Bringing In the Wasted Harvest
• Pope Francis �" A New Tsar at the Vatican
• Now Is the Time
• Walking in Autumn in Banagher
• Three Men Look Upon A Horse
• They Went Over
• The Sculptor Remembers
• It Foils Their Art

Lianhan Shee

Man, turn your face from the Lianhan Shee
Fall not for her, though fair be her charms
It will bring you death, say the Pavee
Should you take her in your arms…
Fair she is �" a maiden fine
Lakeen fairer rarely seen
To Tír na n�"g she’ll take you man
To where many before you have been.

He who desires her, will her alone love
And it will take his life
He will pass over to the Otherworld
To make she desired his wife.
Only to find there this fair Lackeen
That none describe, she shall not his wife be…
So guard yourself from maidens fair
They might be the Lianhan Shee!!!

Background: Reference material for this poem from the Barefoot Pavee blog.