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1. Fairies (continued)

   

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   door was shut and they began to say "Hie, out in the keyhole, Hie out in the keyhole". They all then got out, only one, and he was saying "Hie, at the keyhole".

   There was a man one night in a graveyard and he was on the lookout for the bodysnatchers. He was sitting down on a tombstone smoking his pipe, it was a fine Summers night, when two fairies got up and danced on a tombstone in front of him. He looked at them for a long time and at last says he "Well done shuckey shark" and in a moment all was dark.

   The fairies used to take young children long ago and leave in their places "fairy changelings". A child was taken from Lough Duncormick one time and there was an ugly looking

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   History Edit

   Date

   17 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

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