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1. Composition - Hidden Treasure (continued)

   “There are a lot of stories connected with crocks of gold.”

   

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   sent him home for something. It is said that the finding of the gold is the reason why the Keenans have been so rich since. Another man saw a fairy one day and he caught him and said that he would not let him go until he would direct him to a crock of gold. The fairy told him that he would tie a red ribbon on a ragworth (he would) and that under that ragworth he would find a crock of gold in the morning. The man was delighted and went home thinking of the luck he was in by meeting this little unearthly man. The next next morning he went out to dig for the gold with his pick axe and when he went there there was piece of red ribbon on every ragworth in the field and they blowing with the wind. The man went home greatly dissapointed in a different mood from that in which he was the evening before.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
         1. folk belief (~2,535)
            1. treasure legends (~7,411)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Teresa Finegan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lisnagunnion, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Mary Burns

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female