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The Stolen Bairn and the Sidh

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 4, 5
Page count: 13

Author

Sorche
Nic Leodhas

Appeared in

Womenfolk and Fairy Tales

Story Summary

When two fairy women of Sidh find a baby by the side of road, they take it into the land of faeire. The child's mother, desperate with grief, learns from the gypsies the only way to get her baby back involves a dangerous act of negotiation and deception.