The clergyman's meal
The clergyman's meal is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at position 4, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker .
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In a remote mountain area near Inchegila in western County Cork, elves dance in the autumn moon. When Father Horrigan comes, they go into hiding. He's a guest at poor Dermod's, whose prematurely aged wife cooks potatoes. Dermod finds a salmon in the trap, but something snatches the net from him. When he complains that it is the devil, an elf replies that it is not true and offers him a meal if he asks about her happiness for her. Dermod refuses the reward for his soul's sake, and the clergyman lets him tell you should come and ask yourself. Then they rush away.
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Grimm's note gives two similar stories, a Danish one from Thiele and a Scottish one from W. Grant Stewart.
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Frankfurt am Main and Leipzig, first edition 1987. pp. 117-121, 251-253. (Insel Verlag; ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 ; The text follows the edition: Irische Elfenmärchen. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation were slightly normalized.)