Volume: CBÉ 0265

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1. Card Players Ride (continued)

   

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   night until they came to a big river & the calf jumped the river so well that the man said "Well 'lepped' of a calf if I never got home." With that he broke the spell & they let him down & he had to stop there until morning & then he found himself outside Rathdrum & he had to get home as best he could.

   

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2. Wife Taken by Fairies

   

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   Once there was a man & his wife was taken by the fairies & another woman was left in her place. After a bit the wife that was left died & the man waked her as his wife. A workman used

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   • Patrick Byrne