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   “In the olden days, people believed that the fairies came to a house where a baby was born and tried to steal the human baby, and leave a fairy baby in its place.”

   

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   Story 3 January 1938 Told by Mrs Huston In the olden days, people believed that the fairies came to a house where a baby was born, and tried to steal the human baby and leave a fairy baby in its place. But if the parents of the child had any suspicions that this happened to their baby, they had a way of finding out. The following story shows how they found out. The parents of Charles Knox, the father of Robert George Knox, and grandfather of three of my pupils, had an idea that he was not their child, but that the fairies had stolen their child and had left this fairy baby in its place. Therefore, they bought him down to the forge, and the blacksmith placed him on the anvil, and the blacksmith struck the anvil with the hammer. As the baby sat quietly on the anvil.

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Huston

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   c. 90