Alp-luachra

Alp-luachra

An Alp-luachra is an evil, greedy fairy from Irish mythology. When a person falls asleep by the side of a stream, the Alp-luachra appears in the form of a newt and crawls down the person's mouth, feeding off the food that they had eaten. Douglas Hyde's "Beside the Fire" tells of how a person got back at an Alp-luachra by eating large amounts of salted meat and sleeping near the stream. The Alp-luachra fed upon him, but jumped to the water in thirst.
* http://www.efairies.com/fairy_lore.htm
* http://www.faerytrail.com/fairytrail3/faerya-f.html
* "Beside the Fire": http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/btf/btf07.htm


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