The Fate of the Children of Lir
This story is about the children of King Lir (duh). King Lir marries Ove, who is the eldest child of Oilell. They have four kids and then Ove dies. King Lir then marries Ove's sister, Oifa. Oifa is awesome at first, but then she started becoming jealous of Lir's children. Oifa took the four children on a journey to kill them. She asks someone else to kill the children, but they refuse. Oifa then tells the children to go into the Lake of Oaks to take a bath. As soon as they were in the lake, Oifa put a spell on them to make them 4 swans. She told them that they would stay that way until Lairgnen and Deoch wed. When she returns, King Lir figures out that she has done something with the kids. He goes to the lake and speaks to the swans and they tell him what has happened. For Oifa's punishment, she is turned into what she thinks is the worst shape on the earth, an air-demon. She flew away. I was wondering what happened to her when she left, so I think I may write a story on that little detail. Long story short, they finally become human again and then die. The end.
Dream of Owen O'Mulready
This is a short story about a man who couldn't dream named Owen. He was working one day and told his master that he had never had a dream before. The master then told him to go home and clean out his fireplace and sleep in there and he was sure to dream. His wife, Margaret, slept with him in the chimney. Not long after, there was a knock at the door. There was a letter from the master that was to go to America. He ran from place to place and everyone he met knew who he was. He finally got to the ocean and could go no more. A crane told him to get on her back and she would take him across. Half way over she got tired and told him to get off. He refused! There was a thrasher above them and so he asked the thrasher to let him hang on his flail so he could give the crane a rest. The crane took off and left him hanging there. Luckily a ship came by soon and was trying to get him into the ship. He dropped his shoe to see if the ship was under him so he could fall down and all of a sudden his wife yelled because she had just been hit in the head with a shoe. When he woke up, he was climbing the chimney and was half-way up. He decided he didn't ever want to have another dream.
From the UN-Textbook.
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