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   in a terrible state as she didn't know how to figure the wool or spill the pedal. Well she was in the room anyway thinking very hard when who should come in through the window, but a very old ugly woman with one very large foot. The girl asked her who she was and why her foot was so big and the ugly woman said that she was a fairy and that she was the best spinner in the world that her food was so big from working the pedal. The girl was glad when she heard that, and she asked the fairy if she would help her to do her spinning, that she didn't know anything about the work. The fairy said she would if the girl would give her a note asking her to the wedding. The girl wrote the note for her, and the fairy woman began to sew and she fingered the wool like lightning and made the pedal fly like the wind & in a few minutes all the wool in the room was spun most beautifully. In the evening the King's mother called to see how she was getting on, and she was more than surprised to see all the spinning done so beautifully. She said that the next day she would test her at the wedding. Well the next day she brought the girl into a big room and their were thousands of balls of woollen and linen thread [?] woven, and she said her to have it all woven before

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   AT0501: The Three Old Women Helpers

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   James Cooke

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   80

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Drumlaggagh, Co. Leitrim