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   shoes and he would find his other brother sleeping upstairs, and to take the sword from over his head, and it would make a roar, and the brother would be up when he would hear it, and to tell him lie down there or else you would kill him.
   He went and did what he was told and got the sword from over his head.
   The man in the bed told him that when he got married to his wife she did not like him; she liked another man better She used to strike him with an enchanted rod and turn me into a little dog every day, she used to order her father's men to kill sheep and cattle, and she used to tell her father that it was me that would kill them, in hopes that her father would catch me and kill me. Her father did not know that she used to turn me into a dog. One day he and his men went out on the hills after me to kill me.
   When I was getting it hard I jumped on the saddle before her father She then told her father to kill me. But

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Ghreachain

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Cois Leice, Co. Mayo