The Angulus was too early for lovers...he "shields her from the foggy, foggy dew."

In a folk-song book somewhere I read that the "foggy dew" was actually a term for a bug-bear or ghost (Anglicised Gaelic?). The supposed ghost was used as an excuse for the couple getting into bed together and staying there.

From memory:

One night she came to my bedside
When I was fast asleep;
She threw her arms around my neck
And then began to weep.
She wept, she cried, she damn near died,
She said "What can I do?"
So I hauled her into bed
And I covered up her head
Just to keep her from the foggy, foggy dew.


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