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   and dancing. He heard the fairies singing - Monday, Tuesday. The man said Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. The fairies ran up to the man and asked him to teach them that song. The man taught them the song. The fairies asked him that gift die he want he said to take the hump off his back. The man went home without the hump. There was another man in the same village and he had another hump. He asked the man what did h do to the hump and he said the fairies took it off him. He said how did the fairies take the hump off you and he said I went into a fort and I heard the fairies singing Monday Tuesday Monday Tuesday and I said Monday Tuesday Wednesday. All the fairies ran up to me and asked me to teach them the

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   History Edit

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   AT0503: The Gifts of the Little People

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Katie Kelly

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Beagh, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mr William Shally

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Beagh, Co. Galway