reading notes: celtic fairy tales; part a

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 a drunk leprechaun
it seemed to be almost a story of death. A woman appeared and came from another land, a haven. the father got his druid to scare her away for a while, but until her return, the son yearned for her to come back. she eventually came back and the father let his son go with her.

a man saw a leprechaun. he was careful to never take his eyes off of him, for if you do that they will escape. they argued about what the beer the leprechaun made was made out of. the leprechaun tried to trick him to turn around, he almost fell for it, but caught himself. he quickly grabbed the leprechaun but accidentally knocked over the beer and he had a murderous look in his eye. he demanded to be taken to the gold. the lep did so and took him a few fields away and told him where to dig. he marked it with his scarf and went home to grab a spade having the lep promise to not move the scarf. when he got back, the lep had taken the scarf.

a king told a tailor if he could go and make him some pants within one night whilst inside of the haunted church, then he would be rewarded handsomely. the tailor knew it was haunted, but wanted the reward, so he accepted the challenge. a giant monster appeared while he was working and at first his head popped out of the ground and said do you see this great head of mine. the tailor responded that he sees that but must sew this. they had this exchange all up until the last foot, when the tailor finished and ran away as fast as he could. the monster gave chase. the tailor ran and ran without break and eventually got to the gates and locked the door. the monster was angry and left a hand print where he struck the door.


Story source: Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs with illustrations by John D. Batten (1892).

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