King O'Toole and his Goose
The old King was no longer to hunt and fish and be outdoorsy like he so loved to do. This also meant the people didn't respect him as much. The kings old age required that he have something to fetch him his hunt and play game with, so he got a goose. Then eventually the goose aged as well and was no good. One day St. Kelvin came to his disguised as a boy and made a deal to made the goose young and new if King O'Toole gave him all the land under the goose. The deal was made and then St. Kelvin revealed himself to the King. The goose was eventually killed when he caught an eel instead of a trout.
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The Shee An Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire
This was an extremely long story about a fairy of Gannon and the once laughing goblin. The fairy man wanted to win the kings daughter for marriage, but to do this he first had to find out why the goblin who used to always laugh loudly never laughs anymore. Should he fail his head would be put on a stake with the previous other 11 suitors who failed to solve the mystery. He went on a journey and become the cow herder of the goblin to find out why he no longer laughs. I couldn't tell you how it ended because it was so long and weaving that I couldn't bring myself to follow it consciously all the way through.
Beth Gellert
This was an incredibly sad story. The king had his favorite and best hunting dog, a great dane named Gellert. One day when he went outhunting Gellert didn't come so he didn't return with much game and he was angry. Gellert greated him happily at the gate but he was covered in blood, dripped from his mouth. The King though immediately to his baby so he went to check on him. Sure enough when he entered the room the baby was gone and the crib turned over. Without hesitation the King stabbed the dog. The the baby cried and he saw a dead wolfs body beside it. How sad.... he killed the dog who saved his babies life. And Gellert looked at him with such loving eyes. Now the dogs grave is in the castle yard and everyone must look at it when the pass by.
The Tale of Ivan
Ivan and his wife lived in a place with no work so he went off and became a farmer for a man and earned 3 pounds each year. At the end of a few years the man gave him advice instead of wages until finally Ivan wanted to go home to his wife. On the last day the bosses wife gave him a cake to give to his wife once they were happy again. On the way home he followed the advice and he was spared unlike his friends. When he got home he and his wife gave the king apurse of jewels they had been given. Then the king made him his servant. They then broke apart the cake and in it was all the wages from the years he worked. Honesty was the best policy for Ivan.
Andrew Coffey
This grandfather knew everyone and the land well so it was a surprise when one day he and his horse got lost in the woods. They came up a cabin in the woods and Andrew was sitting by the fire warming when a voice told him to tell him a story. He would not so a man who was thought to be dead jumped out from the cupboard. He ran and the man chased him. He climbed in a tree and four other men put the cupboard man on a stick on top of a fire to roast him. Andrew was put in charge of not letting him burn. He was thinking deeply when the cupboard man untied himself. Then Andrew ran again and ended back in the cabin. Again a voice told him to tell and story and this time he did- the story of that night from start to finish.
Brewery of Eggshells
A mom left her twin babies alone one day and as she returned she saw blue elves crossing the road. Her babies were fine when she got inside so all was well. Until, neither of them ever grew, then everyone including her husband suspected something was wrong. She went to the smart guy of the village and he told her to made a eggshell brew for the reaper and to stand at the door to listen to see if her babies talked about baby things of adult things. She did this and heard mature things so she knew they weren't her babies. She threw them in the river as instructed and they turned blue. The other elves saved them and she got her real babies back.
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