Weaving Fairies and Ned Judge (co. Antrim)

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Ned Judge, of Sophys Bridge [County Antrim], was a weaver. Every night after he went to bed the weaving started of itself, and when he arose in the morning he would find the dressing which had been made ready for weaving so broken and entangled that it took him hours to put it right. Yet with all this drawback he got no poorer, because the fairies left him plenty of household necessaries, and whenever he sold a web of cloth he always received treble the amount bargained for.’

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