THE ENCHANTED CAVE
Conaran Mac Imidel, one of the Tuatha de Danann chiefs, was lord of Keshcorran in the north at the time when Fionn, with a great number of his Fians, went up there to hunt. It did not please Conaran that Fionn should hunt over his country then; so he called his three daughters, who were skilled in every kind of sorcery and witchcraft, and could assume any form they chose, and said to them:
"Weave spells over Fionn and his men that will hold them in bondage, for I do not want them roaming and hunting through all my country at this time."
The daughters of Conaran talked together, then the eldest of them, who was called Iarran, said to her father:
"It shall be done; but do you go to the
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