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1. The Changeling (continued)

   

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   of course, she had to put up with it. Every day the child got worse; it was the length of the cradle and as thin as a whip. The poor woman was failing away every day. No matter what she'd do he'd ask her what was she doing. At last she was that heart-scalded with him that she went to an old witch and told her all. The witch told her to make two whites of eggs with into broth and stir in a handful of meal and when the lad would ask her what she was making to say 'porridge'.

   When she went home she did all as she was told. He says what are you making? Porridge for you, says she. When she looked at him he was laughing. Oh, he said, I'm over a hundred years old and I never saw

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Gallaher

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tober, Co. Longford