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1. Fairy Stories and Traditions - A Strange Card-Player (continued)

   

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   of foot on him. This strange man was said to be following the young Catholic. The playboy just left the card party as the young man was entering Cavan. This playboy could go any place in a second.

   

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2. Fairy Stories and Traditions - Going Astray

   

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   One misty night I lost my way in a field of my own behind the house there. I was staggering through it for a long time. At last I took off my cap, turned it inside out, and strange to say I began to make my way rightly out of the field.

   

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3. Fairy Stories and Traditions - Fairy Cobblers

   

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   One night a man was going up the road home and as he was coming to Walsh's lane he saw eleven fairy cobblers. Two of them seemed to be cutting out and the rest were making boots. The bush where he saw them is there yet.

   

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4. Fairy Stories and Traditions - A Ghostly Pair

   

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   Down near the commons there was a man and he used to be foddering his cattle every night. And every night he would see a man and woman walking about and them linked arm in arm. The man passed no remarks on this as he was seeing them every night. One night near Halloween this same man was out foddering and he saw this

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Moore

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   John O' Neill

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 70

   Address

   Lisnalee, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Mrs O' Neill

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lisnalee, Co. Monaghan