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Proinnsias Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 408

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    that was giving them the price of twenty cows like the one they lost.
    The boy would not take it. The rest of the fairies told them that they could go home without anything. Then they were as poor as ever after that.
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    There was a man one time named Will Cooper, he was very poor. One day as he was working in his forge, a fairy came into it, and gave Will three gifts. One was that whoever took up his sledge could not leave it down without him telling them and another was that whoever sat on his armchair could not get up without him telling them and the last was
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    AT0330A: The Smith and the Devil (Death)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Whitney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bóithigh, Co. Liatroma
    Informant
    Hugh Whitney
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bóithigh, Co. Liatroma