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1. The Fairy Wart (continued)

   

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   the lotion seven times. On the seventh day the pain disaooeared and what seemed to be a small bone about an inch long came out of the leg and Nellie was cured, but until she died, when she told the story to her friends she could show to any who doubted her a hollow place where lay at one time the fairy dart. After some time when she went in person to visit and thank the old woman she was very grieved to hear that the old had lost her field of wheat as she said she would.

   Gertrude Mooney

   Originally from
   Miss Loughman
   Tara Hill, Gorey
   Died 1932 aged 87

   

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2. The Fairy Changeling

   

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   Once upon a time there lived in the heart of Eire a woman whose name was Biddy Shea. She was mother of five girls and was very proud and pleased when her sixth child was a boy. The child throve well and was a pleasure to see until he was almost twelve months old. The mother noticed it pining away, it used to laugh in a strange way, and look about it as cunning as a mouse, and then cry and squall in a moment like no Christian child. When she took it on her lap it often made faces at her so that she was often afraid to look at. When it was old enough to take food it would not eat for her only cry all day long. She though it would die and felt very sorry for it. It lived on for three months without any food that

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Gertrude Mooney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gorey, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mrs Mooney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gorey, Co. Wexford