Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0468
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“It is surprising what stories one hears...”
(continued from previous page)was any of the neighbours trying to play tricks on him. At last things went so bad with him that he heard noises all around the kitchen and then he began to wonder were there really fairies. At last he put the place up for another but nobody would buy it at all, for they heard about the bad luck that the man had in it. So the only thing that he had to do was to take down the house and build it in a different part of the farm. Not long after this he got on fairly well and things prospered with him and he became a wealthy man.
The old folk all say that it is very unlucky to have anything at all to do with the fairies and people should keep away from them as far as far as they could and have(continues on next page)