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   very fast until it reached the house but the window was stopped up. The dogs caught hold of it and took a piece out of its ribs. The hare ran to the door and the man came and went in. There was a witch sitting at the fire and a piece of his hips all torn and bleeding. That was a witch in the form of a hare that was sucking the cows.

   

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   There was a man one time who used to make poteen. One day a certain man went to the door and asked him to tell him a story. The man said he had no story to tell. Then said the other man, " I will tell you one." "There lived a man one time who made poteen. A guard went to the door one day. The man's wife thought he was going to arrest her and she threw out the poteen

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   Topics

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. áiteanna osnádúrtha agus spioradálta (~158)
         1. ráthanna (~5,616)

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