Connla and the Fairy Maiden
Connla was the son of the king, Conn. One days fairy appeared and everyone could hear her speaking but only COnnla could see her. She loved COnnla and wanted him to come away to her land with her. The king didn't want this so he got his Druid to cast a spell in the fairies direction and no longer could they see or hear her, but she tossed an apple to Connla. He ate only that for a month, the apple kept re-growing. After a month the fairy reappeared to see and hear and she enticed Connla to be even more in love with her. He jumped in her canoe at seas and took off with her to her land to love her and never be seen again.
The Field of Boliauns
A man named Tom was walking home beside a line of bushes when he heard a noise up ahead. When he came to it he saw a Leprechaun and a dark pitcher of liquid. He asked what it was and the Leprachuan said beer made of heath not malt like Tom guessed. Tom wanted to try it but the Leprachaun was rude so Tom snatched him up but spilt all the beer in the process. Then since he didn't get to try the beer he demanded that the Leprachaun take him to his gold. He took him to a field of boulians (ragweed plant) and to the one that the gold was buried under. Tom tied a red fabric around the one and went home to get a trowel. He told the Leprechaun not to move the red bow and to go away, he said okay. When Tom returned all of them had red bows on them now. Tom was defeated and empty handed.
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One night a rich woman was carding wool by the fire while her family and servants slept then there was a knock at the door. One horned woman witch entered and she had a horn on her head. She sat by the fire and carded wool as fast ad lightning. This happened 11 more times until 12 witched were carding, weaving, using the wheel, each one had a horn more than the last until the final one had 12 horns. They put a spell on the woman to make her still and not able to speak and they told her to make them a cake. She went to the well and got water for the cake. The well told her to say something when she returned, she did this and the witched fled. While they were gone she took care of their spells to prevent them from coming back. The witche made a cake while she was gone, of the families blood, and she fed that to the sleeping people. She did other things and when the witched returned
The Shepherd of Myddvai
He always took his sheep to a lake and one day three beautiful maidens came out around him and danced and sang. He gave one the bread he had but she said it was too hard and went into the water. The next day he gave her softer bread but she said too soft. The third day he gave her bread from the lakes edge and she said shed marry him. They got married and she took cows/oxen from the lake with her to their home. They had three sons. The shepherd unfortunately tapped the lake bride three times too hard and she ended their marriage. She returned to the lake with her animals and they left a trail on the ground. She only came out once to give her sons the healing gifts and they became doctors.
The Sprightly Tailor
A king hired the tailor to stich him an outfit for a large bonus, but the catch was that he had to do it in a church at night time that was supposedly haunted. No one had even gone there at night and stayed. The tailor was sprightly and agreed to this. When he was sitting on a grave stone stitching inside the church the floor shook and huge ghostly head appeared saying "Do you not see this head of mine" and the tailor said "I see it but I sew this." This happened multiple times until finally the ghosts whole body was almost out of the ground and then the tailor finished with long stitches and ran out. The ghost was fully out of the floor now and was chasing him. The tailor made it safely into the castle and the ghost was mad. The tailor got his nice bonus from the king.
Munachar and Manachar
These two Muna and Mana went out and picked raspberries each day, but just as they picked them Mana ate all of them. Muna was mad and wanted to end this by hanging Mana but to do this he needed a gad, which needed a rod, witch needed a flag, which needed water, which needed a deer, etc, etc. Until finally he got the end and was able to use a sieve to give someone water and they gave him what he needed so he could go through the chain and give each what they requested until finally he got him gad to hang Mana. But by them he discovered that Mana had burst from eating all the berries. What a tiring story, even to just read.
Gold-Tree and Silver-Tree
Silver tree was jealous of her daughters beauty, gold tree so she set out to eat her heart and liver. The trout in the well outside their castle kept telling silver that gold was prettier and so he caused all these problems. The dad wanted to keep Gold safe so he married her to a prince in another place. The mom sailed there and pricked her finger with poison. She laid dead until lock and key until the princes second wife pulled out the prick. Then the mother, Silver returned again but with a drink of poison. She had to drink first bc it was a custom so the second wife tapped it and it really went down Silver's throat and killed her. Then the prince lived forever with both of his wives. I liked this story. I also liked how the end ended with "So I left them" instead of "they lived happily ever after."
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