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Mary, Shemus, and their teenage son Teig are peasant farmers living on the land of the Countess Cathleen. They are starving and desperate as there is no more food available from the land. The Countess Cathleen has been away for many years and they have had no help. The community is full of gossip and stories about evil spirits that have come among them, which Teig enthusiastically relays to his mother. Mary holds tight to her religious beliefs, and she dislikes Shemus and Teig鈥檚 blasphemous
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MARY. What can have made the grey hen flutter so?
(TEIG, a boy of fourteen, is coming in with turf, which he lays beside the hearth.)
TEIG. They say that now the land is famine struck The graves are walking.
MARY. There is something that the hen hears.
TEIG. And that is not the worst; at Tubber-vanach A woman met a man with ears spread out, And they moved up and
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