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1. Silly Thing (continued)

   

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   bed. All the girls then went to sleep except Sillything. When she found them all asleep she took the necklaces off the three girls necks and put them around her sisters' nacks and her own. At about two oclock in the morning the old man again came in on his tippy toes and felt around the bed, he felt all the girls necks. He thought the necklaces were on his own daughters all the time. So he got a big stich and he killed his own daughters thinking it was the other three girls he has killed. Then he went out of the room quite satisfied with himself. Sillything was wide awake all the time, and the moment the old man left the room she started calling her two sisters. They told her to shut up and let them sleep, but she

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index—relevant types

   AT0328: The Boy Steals the Giant's Treasure

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script