Reading Notes: Celtic Fairy Tales, Part A




READING A:

- In this story, a man named Tom comes across a little man in the bushes drinking and eating. 
- the little man ended up being a Leprechaun. 
- Tom asks the Leprechaun what he's drinking and the leprechaun replies that he's drinking beer made of health, not malt. 
- Tom asks to taste it and the leprechaun refuses. Tom reacts badly and ends up spilling the beer and threatening the leprechaun's life if he didn't show Tom where the gold was. 
- the leprechaun agrees and starts to lead him to the gold
- they get to the place tom is supposed to dig and the leprechaun leaves him. 
- but when tom came back to the field after getting a shovel, the stuff in the field was gone. 
- a shepherd is out by lake when he sees three beautiful women come out of the lake. 
- he instantly falls for the maiden closest to him and offers her some bread. She take it and then sings to him saying the bread it too hard and then runs off laughing to the lake.
- the next day he brings another loaf not so hard and the maiden sings that it's unbaked and runs off bake to the water.
- the third time the shepherd offers her soggy bread that was floating near the shore and she is happy and promises to be his wife unless he strikes her three times without a reason
- years pass and they have kids and the husband taps her on the shoulder a couple of time causing her three count to end
- she leaves him and takes all the livestock with her back to the lake. 
- Macdonald told the tailor that if he made the trews at night in a very haunted old church that he would give him a big reward. 
- the tailor knew what he was getting himself in to and agreed
- the tailor was at the church, sitting on a headstone and sewing when the ground shook and a human head emerged from the ground
- as the tailor continued to sew the trews, the zombie creature slowly kept emerging from the ground so the tailor tried to work faster. 
- the creature was almost out of the ground when the tailor finished his work, blew out his candle, and ran away from the church.
- the creature started to chase after him and chase him all the way to the castle where the tailor outran him and got his reward for his night's work. 
- a king had a wife named silver tree and a daughter named gold tree. 
- silver tree was unhappy that her daughter was more beautiful than she was so she wanted to eat her heart and her liver. 
- silver tree became ill and the kind told her he'd do anything to make her better and she told him she wanted to eat the heart and liver of gold tree. 
- but gold tree went off to marrying and the kind decided to give his wife the heart and liver of a goat instead, but silver tree didn't know it was a goat. 
- the queen asked the trout again if she was the most beautiful and the trout said no your daughter is so the queen was made cause she though her daughter was dead.
- the queen sailed to her daughter and when she saw she couldn't get to her daughter because she was locked in a room, she asked her to stick her finger out and the queen struck her finger with a poisoned stab. 
- the prince was so sad by his wife's death so he locked her body in a room where no one could see her instead of burying her. 
- the prince remarried and the second wife found gold tree's body and pulled out the poisoned stab and gold tree came back to life. the prince was happy and decided he'd keep both wives. 
- the queen found out her daughter was alive again and tried to kill her again but the second wife helped and they were able to kill the queen first. 



Notes for Celtic Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs

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