“Many go to Tir-na-nog in sleep, and some are said to have remained there, and only a vacant f

“Many go to Tir-na-nog in sleep, and some are said to have remained there, and only a vacant form is left behind without the light in the eyes which marks the presence of a soul.”

-A.E. (Qt. by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (1911))