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1. Wife Taken by Fairies

   

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   Once upon a time, a girl was married and that night she was taken by the fairies and she appeared to the two brothers and said that she was taken by the fairies and they would get one opportunity of getting her back.

   Then she said that the fairies would be crossing a field and says which was in the field and the way that they would know her, she said, that she would come last out in the gap upon a white horse.

   The two brothers went and stayed at the gaps, one at each side. The fairies came, some of them walking, and more of them on horseback. The girl came out last in the gap upon a white horse. When she was going away, she looked at the brothers. They hadn't the power to take her off and she was never seen anymore. The brothers never forgave themselves for not taking her.

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   Lore

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   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Thomas Kavanagh