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1. Fairies (continued)

   

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   child left in it's place. This grew to be an awful looking man. He never grew very big but a person would hate to meet him on the road he was so ugly and wicked looking. He died when he was about forty years of age.

   There was a travelling tailor used to go around from house to house long ago, and one day he was in a certain house in Bannow and there was a child in the cradle, a young child of about three or four months old. Suddenly a whirlwind came and blew around the house and when it was gone the child sat up in the cradle and began to sing and play a fiddle. The tailor was sitting on the table and he go such a fright that he jumped down and ran for his

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   History Edit

   Date

   17 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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