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 "Have you not heard of me? I am Uchtdealb the Fair. Illan was my husband before he was yours, but when he saw you he put me away from him, and gave you my place. All these months I have been planning vengeance, and now the time has come to take it. Shall I tell you what it is? I am going to put a spell on you, and change you into the form of a hound, and your life shall be spent in chasing wild animals. You shall suffer, too, for your mind I will not change, and your thoughts will be as before—of Illan and Fionn and all your lost friends."

Tuirenn shrank away in fear from the girl; then she thought of Fionn and his heroes, and her courage returned.

"If you do this thing to me," she said, "Fionn will know, and will be revenged on you, even though he has to hunt through the whole world to find you. Remember that through his mother he too belongs to the faery race, and has power, and whatever spell you place on me he will surely make you remove. So I have no fear of you."