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1. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality (continued)

   

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   at that time of the year. Well! to tell my story. Alex McCabe's grandfather was one time going to reap for a widow woman in Corroneary. The night before he went to a neighbour's house to borrow a hook. When he was coming home he had the hook under his "oxter" and he was passing a field of oats so he said to himself. "I'll go in here and cut a sheaf and it will be dry for to bring to the widow's in the morning, and besides, she's a poor woman and mabey she can't afford a sheaf for my breakfast." So he went in and cut a sheaf and tied it and came out on the road with it. He heard great noise behind him and he saw a terrible crowd of horse men coming along the road. They passed him by and there was a man and a woman on every horse and as they were passing McCabe they used to pull heads of oats out of his sheaf. When he came to his own g-house he hadn't as much as one blade of oats. The field in which he cut the sheaf never gave either oats or potatoes for seven years. You see the fairies take some of all the crops but the people don't miss it, and MCabe cut the heads they were to take that night. You can see the "gran-duh" the fairies leave in the place of the heads they take.

   

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   James Rourke

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Corraneary, Co. Leitrim