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

   

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   There was a man one morning going to the fair of Aria with a cow. When he came as far as the Bridge between Fanghied and Drumloughan he met a big crowd of men and he thought he knew some of them that was a long time dead. The men were very small, and they had all small little withered faces. They brought him through the fields, and in every field they brought him into they used to surround him, and he couldn't get away. They kept bringing him from field to field till daylight, and at daylight he was beyond in Sunnaghmore. When he came home he got his cow tied in the byre.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Jimmy M. Cabe

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Racullen, Co. Leitrim

2. Some Fairy Stories and Personal Experiences Still Common in this Locality

   

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   I heard of a man that was coming off his ceilidh one night from Mount Ida. When he came as far as Mike Glancy's field there was a big quick before him and he couldn't get by it. He knelt down and prayed and the quick went away. When he came to Eddy Garvey's gate he saw a little red woman with big long teeth and she driving six

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