Scoil: Clochar na Trócaire, Meathas Truim (uimhir rolla 13313)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “Once upon a time in a bog about two miles from here...”

   

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   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   to open it as they thought it might be robbers. The knocking kept on and a woman voice was heard saying "open the door and let me in I want to wash and I want to spin. They then opened the door. A woman stepped in with one horn on her head. She told them all to sit back from the fire. She hung on a pot and filled it with water. Then she took a bag off her back and took out a number of things to be washed. The man and family had to sit into a corner. They could stop admiring the horn on her head. They knew by her appearance that she was a fairy. Suddenly another knock came to the door. The man opened it and in walked another old woman with two horns and another with three and so on until twelve at last with twelve horns. They all did washing. They dried them carefully at the fire they then ironed and folded them and put them in their bags. When all was finished there were twelve caps to be ironed one cap she put it on and away she went up the chimney. The next ironed another and away she went up the chimney and so on until the last one was gone up the chimney and never heard of again.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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