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School: Dromlachan

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Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 362

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  1. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality (continued)

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    father and another man went down to see what was at the lone bush. So they went down and wasn't the girl there with the four strange fellows The two men tried to pull her away but they weren't able. The next night the same two men saw the light again, and they went to the lone bush and they saw the girl there again with the 4 strange fellows. After a great deal of pushing and fighting they got the girl away from the bush and home to the house. But when she came back she couldn't speak. The fairies struck her dumb so that she wouldn't tell anything about them. As long as she lived she never spoke afterwards.
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  2. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality

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    There was a man and a woman one time living in a house, and one night there came a knock to the window. The woman told the man not to bother the knock, but the knocking continued on and in the end the man got up and opened the door. There was a crowd of men outside and they asked him to go with them that they wanted him for a little job. He went with them and they brought him away and they came to a house and they went
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Patrick Grant
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Occupation
    Farmer