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1. Fairy Stories - The Thorn from a Fairy Fort

   

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   One day when a man was cutting his hedge a little fairy man came up to him and told him not to cut it because it was joined to a fairy fort. The man said he would cut it because it was he owned it.
   As he was cutting it a thorn flew from the hedge and stuck in his eye and after a short time it got blind and from the badness of that eye his two eyes got stone blind.

   

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2. Fairy Stories - The Family Who Could Not Churn

   

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   Once there was a family and they could never churn their butter. So one day a little fairy woman came in and they told her they could not churn their butter. The little woman told them if they placed a little can of milk outside the cowhouse door after milking that their churning would be alright.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Keogh

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

   Address

   Saint Patrick's Terrace, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs Keogh

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   32

   Address

   Saint Patrick's Terrace, Co. Tipperary