Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0261
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“There was a man wan time and he went out wan morning...”
(continued from previous page)when he said he would sit down and have a smoke. Where did he sit down only on a fairy path and he was sittin there for some time when he got five or six stings in his lower part and looking down he saw five or six needles disaphearin down in the ground. It was the fairies that were stinging him for sitting on their path.
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“It is very unlucky to leap from a ditch...”
It is very unlucky to leap from a ditch in the middle of the night for the fairies might be passing and they might bring you away with them. There was a man one time and he jumped from a ditch and he never landed until he landed in the fairy rath. He was kept there by the fairies for seven years and then he was let out and the people didn't know(continues on next page)