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School: Clochar na Trócaire, An tSráidbhaile (roll number 13020)

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Stradbally, Co. Waterford
Teacher:
An tSr. Ióseph
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    One evening a man with a hump on his back was passing a lios near my home in Ballingown, Kilrossanty and he heard the fairies singing 'Monday, Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday'. So he told them to add Wednesday on to it and they did, so they took the hump off him for adding on Wednesday.
    When this man was going home he met a friend of his who had a hump also. He told the man how
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    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0503: The Gifts of the Little People
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Kiely
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballingowan, Co. Waterford