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

   

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   go again. He came on home again and he could hear a crowd walking before him and a crowd behind him. When he came to his own street he couldn't move hand or foot. He was tied to the ground, and he never got loose till daylight came.

   

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2. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality

   

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   There was a woman one time in Looma named Rosy Lyons, and she had a white calf and the calf died, and she threw the calf into a gripe. Alex Gilfillan was one night coming throuigh to Looma on his céilide, and when he was going through a field he was surrounded by a crowd of fairies on horseback. They all said. "Good night Alex, will you come for a ride with us, and we'll have a good time." He said he wouldn't and they forced him to go. So to get out of going Alex said. "How would I go with yis anyway. Sure yis have no horse me." And the fairies said. "Get Rosy Lyons' white calf for him", and the word wasn't out of their mouths till Rosy Lyon's white calf was beside Alex. Alex got up on the calf and the fairies warned him not to speak while he was on the calf's back. One of the fairies

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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

   Jimmy Galloghy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim