# Moll Rial — Short Fiction character guide

> Moll Rial in Short Fiction by J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mary

**First appearance:** 0072-moll-rial-s-adventure

## Who they are

A woman who has a strange adventure with a fairy piper.

## In the story

### [The Child That Went with the Fairies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/the-child-that-went-with-the-fairies)

Widow Mary Ryan, mother of the lost child Billy, who lives in a cabin near Lisnavoura.

### [The White Cat of Drumgunniol](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/the-white-cat-of-drumgunniol)

Molly, the woman who screams at the wake, claiming the corpse's face and arm moved.

### [Moll Rial's Adventure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_31_se/chapters/moll-rial-s-adventure)

The protagonist of the story, a young laundress at the time of the encounter.

## Links

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