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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