{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_flat_flat37_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_flat_flat37_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_neu_celt_flat_flat37_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/celt/flat/flat37.htm","summary":"This is an early nineteenth-century Irish supernatural tale, likely from a folklore or periodical tradition, set at the decaying manor house of Carrigrohan near Cork. It centers on \"Teigue,\" a disembodied voice that haunts the estate: invisible, uncatchable, and possessed of inexplicable knowledge of the people he taunts \u2014 including a servant's past theft and guests' personal histories. The story follows escalating encounters from a terrified new servant to a dinner party where Teigue mocks the assembled company by name, then leads a blustering military colonel on an absurd chase across fields and hedges before apparently diving off a cliff into a river pool called Hell-hole. What distinguishes the piece is Teigue's tone: he is not a malevolent ghost but a gleeful trickster \u2014 comic, verbally sharp, and ultimately harmless \u2014 which makes the story more a comic tall tale about Irish fairy mischief than a horror narrative. The narrator briefly intrudes in first person to describe the house's atmosphere of gloom with personal childhood memory, lending the tale a frame of authenticated local legend. Readers drawn to Irish folklore, comic supernatural fiction, or the Croker-era tradition of \"fairy legends\" presented as credible regional anecdote will find this rewarding.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Fairy Legends and Traditions: Teigue of the Lee","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Legends and Sagas","translated_text":null,"word_count":2519}