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Fairies come take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind, run on top of the

cheveled tide and dance upon the mountains like a flame.

Fairies, changelings and herbalist doctors might seem like characters in a winding tale of medieval

folklore today.

But in 1895, Ireland ball witness to a case that saw these facets of folk tradition flare up in the human world in a very real way

when Michael Cleary, a skilled tradesman of County Tipperary, set fire to his wife, burning her to death.

As the body of Bridget Cleary was placed in the ground, her husband was convinced that he

would see his wife again, riding on the back of a grey horse as she emerged

from an invisible plane. The body in the ground was merely that of a changeling, an imposter placed in his house by the fairies. By setting our on fire, all he had

done was expedite the process of return. This is dark histories where the facts are worse than fiction.

Hello and welcome to Season 3 episode 4 of dark histories I'm Ben and we're here today with a

proper full-on episode I hope you've all been enjoying the daily short like yesterday to day episodes as much as I've

enjoyed making them. They've been really good fun. But today I'm back with a nitty gritty of a full on episode and it's most certainly a gritty one.

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