School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)

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   to her husband and son. The neighbour asked her how was the other child she left at home she told the neighbour he was always crying that he was a great annoyance to her. The neighbour told her that he thought, that was not her own child that it was more like a fairy child he told her this advice, when you are going to the bog to-morrowm and when about 5 minutes gone turn back again to the house and you will know whether he is a fairy or not she told her husband what the neighbour, told her about the child and to come and meet her to-morrow when she would be going with the dinner to the bog. The husband did come to meet her and they both went back to the house around dinner time until they would see what was going on there and when they went back, to their great surprise what they they see but their own child playing a fiddle in the cradle and the kitchen full of fairies and they dancing around the house so they put the key in the lock and opened the door and by the time they had the door opened all the fairies were gone and nobody left but

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Jordan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Shoodaun, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Thomas Jordan

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Shoodaun, Co. Galway