Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)

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1. Fairies (continued)

   

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   and see them growing. So he goes to the field again and stays watching all night but no sign of a mushroom could he see growing. However he fell asleep abut three o'clock and begor when he awakened again the daylight was well in and to his surprise the whole place was covered with mushrooms and he wondered how they grew so quickly as he hadn't been two hours asleep.
   After that he decided to plough up the field so that he wouldn't be deceived any longer, so he ploughed up the whole field and sowed corn in it. Well when the corn was just ripe he went out to see it wan evening and therewas a big ring all around just the same as a fella was after ringing a horse in it, but still there was no marks of anything trampling in it and what was more was the whole ring around covered with mushrooms. oh damn the

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   History Edit

   Date

   17 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seán Dilliún