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1. The Fairy Changeling (continued)

   

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   child had said. The smith said he couldn't produce such a flame as that, and also told him that he thought there was no other smith in the county could do it except one man that was living in Gorey. Murphy set out for Gorey and it wasn't long until he came to the smiths forge. The smith was inside working and he was a very old man, Murphy thought he was surely one hundred years of age. Murphy told him about the part of the plough, how no smith in the county could weld it, and he also told him what the child had said. When the smith heard the story he wondered greatly. "There is no other smith in the country knows anything about that charm but myself" says he to Murphy and

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • James Roche