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Mahon

beautifully; and one day in the harvest, when the men were in the fields, she went into the house, and there she looked on the hurdle for some lard to make colcannon ^ for the men, and she saw her old

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beautifully; and one day in the harvest, when the men were in the fields, she went into the house, and there she looked on the hurdle for some lard to make colcannon ^ for the men, and she saw her old (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx, Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx

  • attribution: The following was her tale: — ' There was a man named Mahon had a farm on the edge of Loch Owel (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

    "The following was her tale: — ' There was a man named Mahon had a farm on the edge of Loch Owel."

  • attestation: beautifully; and one day in the harvest, when the men were in the fields, she went into the house, and there she looked on the hurdle for some lard to make colcannon ^ for the men, and she saw her old (Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx > Volume I > Chapter II: The Fairies' Revenge)

    "beautifully; and one day in the harvest, when the men were in the fields, she went into the house, and there she looked on the hurdle for some lard to make colcannon ^ for the men, and she saw her old cap of fish skin, and she put it on her head and ran straight down into the lake and was never seen any more, and Mahon he was terribly grieved, and he died soon after of a decline."

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