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   “There was a man there long ago and he was very fond of being out late by night.”

   

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   There was a man there long ago and he was very fond of being out late by night. One night he was coming home at two o'clock. When he was coming up near a fort he heard the fairies playing bagpipes. The man was step-dancing as they played. The night after he heard the same thing at the same hour. The third night he had bagpipes himself and the fairies gave him gold. A couple of nights after he was going up the road and he heard a man mowing inside the ditch. He went in and started spreading the hay after the scythe. The second night he saw the man again at the same hour. The third night he brought a pike himself and the man gave him three lumps of gold the size of a big pot. The man also gave him the hay. From that year on he had great luck with his cattle and sold a lot of hay every year. He lived to be the age of 96 years.

   

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   “Long ago there lived a woman and she had two sons and her two sons died.”

   

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   Long ago there lived a woman and she had two sons and her two sons died. One died a month before the other. at Minard they were staying and the eldest son was married and his wifes name was Joan. Before the second son died she made him promise he would come back and tell her if they were happy. One day there was a funeral and she was going toMass and she turned him. As she was coming to Crosaire an e-Sagauer she met her son and shook hands with him and she had boola grifin in that hand after. He said he was as happy as she could wish them to be

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Thomas D. Kennedy

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Annagap, Co. Kerry