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   “One day William Niell of Eyrecourt went out to a lis beside his house.”

   

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   by a thorn. His finger had to be cut off shortly afterwards, and he never interfered with those bushes growing on the lis again.

   

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   10. One night when Ml. Shaughnessy's grandfather (of Lisanacody, Eyrecourt) was coming home from a fair he had to pass by a lis. When approaching it at about 1/4 mile distance he heard much singing and laughing. On coming to the place he saw a crowd of fairies playing. He ran for his life and all the fairies after him, - all along thro' fields, and across ditches and roads. When a few fields from his home he heard a cock crow, and on turning around he saw that the chase was over, and that the fairies had disappeared. It is said that fairies cannot be out after cock-crow. On reaching home he was exhausted, and in the morning related this strange story to his family. None of them ever passed by that lis again after that.

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   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

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