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School: Cnoc Aoibhinn (Mount Pleasant) (C.) (roll number 13501)

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Mountpleasant, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Géaraidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090, Page 184

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    When the man went in the fairies took his horse and cart and told him to wait until the next day. The man said he could not as he had to go home to his wife. There was a fairy present who was just like this man. The fairies sent him home instead of the man. The wife thought it was her own husband After a few hours he got sick and died they buried him. Early next morning her own man came home and he called to her to let him in. "What
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1792A: The Priest's Pig
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Jane Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Graddoge, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Glynn
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Graddoge, Co. Mayo