Connla and the Fairy Maiden
- The Fairy Maiden pressured Connla to come live in a land of paradise
- Only Connla could see the Fairy Maiden
- A land that saw no sorrow and the people lived happily forever
- Connla's father, the king, called upon Coran the Druid to send the Fairy Maiden away
- He did so, and she was gone
- She gave Connla an apple before she vanished and he only ate from that apple from that day forward, it would grow back after each meal
- Finally the day came and the Fairy Maiden returned and once again called for Connla to return with her
- Connla and the Fairy Maiden rode off in the sunset and no one knew where they went
- Tom came across a pitcher in his field while harvesting
- In it was a leprechaun and beer
- When Tom snatched the leprechaun up he spilt all of the beer
- Tom was angry and demanded the leprechaun to show him his money
- The leprechaun led him to a field of Boliauns and told him which one he had to dig under to recover the gold
- He forgot his spade so he tied a red garter around the Boliaun, made the leprechaun promise not to remove it and went home to fetch his spade
- When he returned his garter was gone and he couldn't dig up every Boliaun, there was 40 acres
- He returned home and cursed the leprechaun every time he thought of what happened
- Twelve witches, the first with one horn and the twelfth with twelve horns, entered the mistresses home
- They sat around in a circle and wound and wove
- They told the mistress to make them a cake
- She went to get water from the well and a voice told her when she got back to the house to yell a chant three times, she did so
- The witches left and while they were gone she locked them out
- When they retuned they were outraged
- They returned home and cursed the Spirit of the Well
- The shepherd took his flock to a lake and lay there while they grazed
- Three sisters came up from the water and he offered one his bread
- She said it was too overcooked and fled back to the waters
- He came back a second time with a loaf that was softer and she said it was uncooked and fled back to the waters
- The third time he gave her a piece that he found on the shore of the lake and it pleased her
- She said if he came back the next day and could pick her out of her sisters she would marry him
- He did and they wed, they returned to his home and she brought some animals with her
- She told them that if he struck her three times without cause she would leave him
- They had children and over the years he tapped her roughly three times
- She fled back to the lake and took the animals with her
- She only returned once when her sons were grown and she gave them the gifts of healing
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