Reading Notes: Celtic Tales, Part A
Brewery of Eggshells
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- There is a shepherds cot known as the Place of Strife
- There lived a man, his wife and their twins
- One day she had to go to her neighbors but was hesitant due to the neighborhood being haunted
- On her way back home, she passed old elves in blue petticoat
- She rushed home and saw that everything and her babies were fine
- After a while, people suspected there was something wrong with the twins since they were not growing
- Her husband said the babies were not theirs
- The mother went to go see the wise man
- When you are getting dinner for the reapers, clear out the shell of a hen's egg and boil some potage in it, and then take it to the door as if you meant it as a dinner for the reapers. Then listen if the twins say anything. If you hear them speaking of things beyond the understanding of children
- If she hears them speaking, she was to take them to the lake and throw them in
- She prepared the egg and heard the children speaking
- She took them to the lake and threw them in
- Upon throwing them in, the goblins came and saved their dwarves
- The mother got her children back
Bibliography : Brewery of Eggshells by, Dan Ashliman. link to story
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