Volume: CBÉ 0406 (Part 3)

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1. Going with the Good People (continued)

   

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   place called Lúraċ. Herself and her father went for the horse to ask them to be brought down.
   WHen they were coming home, 'twas late, they came across the good people playing ball in the field.
   The girl would be taken only for the father being there.
   They took him across the ditch and they put the stoop on him.
   After that he used to be brought out at night by the fairies and he used have to go along with them. I suppose they had some power on him.

   

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   “There was two young boys in Araglin wan time taken by the fairies.”

   

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   There was two young boys in Araglin wan time taken by the fairies. The two of them pined away in wan week and died. It was said that the fairies came at them at a stage (platform dance) or going home from the stage.

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   Date

   19 August 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Martin Aherne