The two godmothers
The two godmothers is a fairy tale . It is contained in the Irish fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm at number 8, which they translated in 1825 from Fairy legends and traditions of the South of Ireland by Thomas Crofton Croker . At Croker, the fairy tale is called The Two Gossips and is the only one that Croker did not include in the second edition of his collection, published in 1826.
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Mrs. Mac Daniel's beautiful son is brought by the elves to Minane near Tracton, near Cork. Her godmother, Norah Buckeley, walks past her house at dusk, with many vortices of dust indicating the elves' parade. She says a blessing and takes the child who is being passed through the window. In the morning she visits her mother, who has a screaming changeling . When she advises you to beat him and throw him in the ditch, he disappeared. The mother brings her real child from her godmother.
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After Grimm: See a story in Waldron in the History of the Isle of Man and a Scottish in W. Grant Stewart in the introduction.
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- Irish fairy tales. In the broadcast by the Brothers Grimm. Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1987, pp. 129–132, 254–256, ISBN 978-3-458-32688-5 . The text follows the output: Irish fairy tales. Translated by the Brothers Grimm. Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig 1826. Orthography and punctuation have been slightly normalized.