School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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- (continued from previous page)it was only a little elf or "changeling" that was in the cradle. She asked the tailor what she'd do and the tailor told her to put down a big fire. She did this and the tailor took the changeling out of the cradle and threw it in at the back of the fire. It let a squeel and went up the chimney like a puff of smoke, and when the mother came back to the cradle her own good child was lying in it.
- There was a man of the name of Higgins living in Rossan one time and he was taken away with the fairies. His people went to a man that could bring back people and the man brought him back, but when he came back he was blind in one eye. The only thing he could see with this eye was the fairies, and any night he was out, he could see them dancing in the forts and driving around in their horses and cars with this blind eye. But in the daytime he could see nothing with it. It happened that some time after he was brought back there was a party fight in Mohill on a(continues on next page)
