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MacPhail, Malcolm, Rev, 1837-1906 (minister | Kilmartin | Argyllshire)

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Story entitled 'Sitheach an sliochd Leanabh Beag' about a fairy child, 1891

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW108/137
Scope and Contents Story entitled 'Sitheach an sliochd Leanabh Beag' about two women whose children had been swapped with fairy children. The first would not stop eating or drinking or crying, so on the advice of an old woman she threw the child in the river. The instant she did that her own child came back. The second woman's fairy child would not stop crying and was not growing. She told the child she was tired of him and he replied that if she kept it a secret he would give her a rest and do some dancing...
Dates: 1891

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