School: An Clochar, Béal an Átha Móir (roll number 13614)

Location:
Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
An tSr. Áthracht
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0224, Page 342

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    He was made sit down. at a grand table and the fairies offered him some of the pancakes but he wouldnt take any of them they offered him a drink of something like water, it sparkled like as if it were full of tiny little silver gems but he would not take it either when the fairies saw this they waved a great big over James and a tiny little fairy brought him out through the door again and put him in a carriage drawn by a peacock. He remembered nothing more until he found he was walking on a strange road about thirty miles from home, he knocked at a house and found it was three o'clock in the morning.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Folktales index
    AT0503: The Gifts of the Little People
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bernadette Wisley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Gerty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killyran, Co. Cavan