In Ireland they are still extant, giving gifts to the kindly, and plaguing the surly. "Indeed, they don\'t like to see them at all," she answered, "for they always bring bad weather." "Here is a man who believes in ghosts," said a foreign sea-captain, pointing to a. "Do the fishermen along here know anything of the mermaids?" I asked a woman of a village in County Dublin. "Amn\'t I annoyed with them," was the answer. "Have you ever seen a Fairy or such like?" I asked an old man in County Sligo.
In Ireland they are still extant, giving gifts to the kindly, and plaguing the surly