Irish Blessings

Come Away Human Child

In earlier times in Ireland people feared that the faires would steal the newborn child of the house. In its place they would leave another who was old and silent. This was known as the changling. In old Ireland there are recognised ways of getting rid of the changling. These required great imagination.. Sometimes they work but mostly they do not. Will the human child be returned or is it lost forever?

Includes references to W.B. Yeat`s poem "The Stolen Child"

Come away, human child
To the water
Come away, human child
To the water and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand
For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand

Aspects of Storytelling

The teller cares and invites others to care.

Listening to both words and voice, we respond not just with waking logic but with the rest of the mind and the heart as well.

From "The Web of Silence" by Fran Stallins

© Tony Cuckson 2006

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Tony Cuckson who runs these groups is a storyteller, writer, workshop leader and Anam cara (Soul Friend) .

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