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1. Stories of Giants and Warriors (continued)

   

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   lived and they saw him and asked him what the placard was for and he said he killed seven men with one blow. The giants said they would kill him with their fingers and they took him into the house. They tried to kill him and they could not. They put him to bed and they thought they would surely kill him in bed so they got an ascel of a cart and they threw it across the bed in which he lay and broke it in two. Nesct morning they went to the bed escpecting to find the boy dead. He was alive and they asked him did he find anything last night and he said he found something like a rat shaking its tail across the bed and they had to let him go.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
         1. giants (~518)

   Folktales index

   AT1115: Attempted Murder with Hatchet

   AT1640: The Brave Tailor

   Language

   English

   Collector

   George Barker

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Laragh, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Mrs E. Brown

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Laragh, Co. Monaghan