Volume: CBÉ 0190
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 110
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“I heard another story about the fairies.”
(continued from previous page)never had any more trouble with the fairies.There was a man went one time to cut bushes in a rath. He was advised by a lot of old people not to have anything to do with the fairies abode. He said that this was all nonsense, so he went and started to cut the bushes. He wasn't cutting very long when he got a pain in his stomach and it started to swell. He swelled up as big as a barrel and in a few days he died.It is also said that mushrooms grow in the fairy rings. People would often see mushrooms growing in the rings. They would say that the fairies have something to do with the mushrooms. It is said that they use them as seats in the(continues on next page)